Article January 22, 1903 Issue

Error's Limitations

E. R. H.

DURING a conversation with a friend not long since, I was rebuked for speaking of a little demonstration "Every demonstration is great." The thought has been very helpful, and has encouraged me to send to the Sentinel an experience of several years ago, which I now recognize as one of the way-marks in my progress in Science.

I am a member of a literary club, and was called upon to write a paper. The matter was before me for some time, and the longer it confronted me, the more persistent was error in declaring my inability to do the work, owing to a lack of advantages. As the date of the meeting drew near, with nothing accomplished, my anxiety was so great that all other duties were neglected. Suddenly the thought came to me: You are not looking to Truth at all, but depending wholly on mortal mind, of course you cannot write. Thus was error uncovered. I turned to Science and Health, and read, "'Work out your own salvation' is the demand of Life and Love; for to this end God worketh with you" (p. 22).

Clearly my work was not the writing of the paper, but destroying the error that was preventing me from reflecting Truth—the intelligence of immortal Mind. The demonstration was not made easily; on the contrary, there were many struggles, but the victory was finally Truth's. A year later, much to my surprise, the experience had to be repeated; but I have since seen that the result was on a much higher plane of thought.

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