Putting Off False Sense

ELFRIEDE EBBINGHAUSEN

When the lame man asked Peter and John for alms, he was healed by them. This constituted the disciples' alms, and it not only relieved but completely met the man's need. They gathered their gift from the source of truth. In order that we may be able to dispense such alms, we must first know the source from which to draw, and this lesson may be conveyed to us through the Biblical account of Moses' calling.

Moses was called of God to deliver his people out of bondage, but this task was put before him only after he had ceased to be at the court of Pharaoh, who was responsible for the subjugation of the people. Impelled by a sense of compassion and indignation, Moses attempted the work of salvation by means of mortal belief, before freeing himself from the thraldom imposed upon him; hence his failure, and the necessity that he flee from the court of Pharaoh in order to escape death.

As in the case of Moses, any attempt on our part to overcome error with error will prove abortive, for in so doing we but "increase the antagonism of one form of matter toward other forms of matter or error," which ends in death, while "the warfare between Spirit and the flesh goes on," as Mrs. Eddy points out in Science and Health (p. 145). We should renounce mortal beliefs, and like Moses go into the wilderness,—seek the spiritual, and eliminate from our consciousness everything false, thereby preparing the way for a knowledge of Truth, the coming of the Lord. Moses retired into the desert, and the more he meditated on the spiritual facts of being, the more were mortal beliefs eliminated from his consciousness, thereby allowing Truth to reign therein. Thus the recognition gradually dawned upon him that there is but one power, namely, God.

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