Article March 17, 1917 Issue

Truth Alone Repeats Itself

IRVING C. TOMLINSON, M.A.

A Proverb frequently quoted declares that "history repeats itself." Too often this saying of mortals is translated to mean that mistakes, sins, sicknesses, and disasters repeat themselves; in fact, many mortals live under the constant apprehension that evil must needs be their portion. This false belief that evil repeats itself is so ingrained in human consciousness that some of the severest afflictions of mankind are the outcome of this mistaken thinking.

Heredity is the false doctrine that the sins and ills which have afflicted the parents will be manifested in the children. Mortals even go so far as to believe it a law that the poverty, discord, and disease of ancestors will necessarily have a repetition in their offspring. The belief of contagion is another noxious weed springing from this seed of error. The only law is divine; and if it were true that this was a divine law,—that evil and disease iterate and reiterate themselves,—then God would be powerless and Truth could not set men free. Christian Science, however, teaches that Truth is ever available, and ready to enlighten mankind as to man's God bestowed birthright. Truth is powerful because of its very simplicity. Only the carnal mind produces complications.

Christian Science brings to the attention of all the vital fact that Truth alone really repeats itself; that only God, good, Life and Love, are repeated in God's man. We do not live today just because we lived yesterday, but because we are reflections of that eternal Life which sustains its own individual expressions. Science and Health says (p. 207), "The spiritual fact, repeated in the action of man and the whole universe, is harmonious and is the ideal of Truth."

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