Article September 13, 1999 Issue

UNWELCOME ADVERTISEMENTS

Jillie Periton

Some time ago I woke in the middle of the night in great discomfort. I tossed around for a time until it became clear that I needed to pray for myself. When I turned to God for a starting thought, the name of a drug frequently advertised on television came forcefully to my consciousness. Commercials for this drug promise relief for the very condition I was suffering from. Immediately this thought followed: an advertisement for a drug cannot make me suffer from the physical conditions that it claims to heal. I then started praying with "the scientific statement of being" on page 468 in Science and Health. It begins: "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." As I prayed those sentences, the discomfort instantly evaporated. I was completely free and peacefully fell asleep.

Thinking about this experience the following morning, I saw clearly how easily one may be lulled into accepting certain commercials' promises because of one's regular exposure to them. We can vigorously reject these messages and replace them with the timeless facts of our spiritual being. Understanding that the laws of God govern man and keep him whole defends us from this type of mental invasion.

Jillie Periton
Boston, Massachusetts

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