Article October 11, 1900 Issue

A Friendly Word

BY M.

How many forms error assumes in the mist of mortal mind! and it is ours to realize their nothingness till they become more and more shadowy, and finally fade away. The mission of Christian Scientists is to lessen the ills of mortal existence, and we need examine ourselves sometimes, perhaps often, to see that error does not use us to the detriment of our brother. For instance, we see some error manifested. Do we hold this error as part of an-other; discuss it with others, criticise, probably misjudge and condemn, and thus add to his burden?

To "judge righteous judgment" surely gives us freedom always to judge between Truth and error, Good and evil, the real and its counterfeit, and the right to exclude all evil from our own consciousness. If this were done would there not then be somewhat less for our brother to meet? Jesus judged the error but not the man, as we see from Luke, 12 : 14.

We were formerly traveling a different path, but now we are trying to walk in the way revealed to us in our text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." But much of the dust still clings to our feet, and must not each get rid of his own dust? Our loving Mother, standing sentinel for a world, discerns the foe, and we get the word. Were all Scientists watching, faithful hearers and doers, standing together, working in unity, overcoming personality, obeying Principle, and recognizing as the voice of the adversary all which argues against Scientific methods and order, what deliverance there would be! The closer we conform to the ways and means given for our benefit by those wise through experience, the sooner shall we get beyond the necessity of those ways and means.

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