Article July 16, 1904 Issue

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CORNELIA E. BAILEY.

Our text-book says of error, "It is no thing" (Science and Health, p. 554). This small sentence bears a message of Truth to mortals, and gives the earnest student food for thought, for it means much in its application to the phenomena of false thinking, as expressed through the material senses.

One definition of the word error is "a mistake." This leads to the contemplation of something that may be corrected. and when correction is made, does not a mistake return to nothingness? In fact, it was nothing at the first, and never belonged to a true condition.

If, when the light of truth first dawns upon our thought, we take our stand therein firmly, and allow nothing to divert us, each day of earnest effort will add to our understanding sufficient for our growth, and as we thus progress, error's nothingness becomes more and more apparent. To know it as nothing means the destruction of all fear, and with the passing of this frightened sense, the reality—the true consciousness—stands revealed, just where God has placed it, and just where it has always been. All along, the only power or presence that error has had, has been its entertainment by so-called mortal mind, and it is indeed a joyous time for us, when we begin to realize our freedom from its bondage, and to know it as "no thing."

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