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The Mirage of Evil
Many years before coming into Christian Science the writer had an experience which, though at the time regarded as only a passing incident, now vividly recurs to thought, teaching a valuable lesson and helping to clear away belief in the reality of evil. While visiting friends one summer, a trip was taken in a motor boat. On the return trip late that night, we were suddenly and unexpectedly confronted by an island, so it seemed, which lay directly across our course. The tide being too low to allow us to pass the island safely on the side near the shore, there seemed nothing else to do but to go around it, which meant turning from our course and putting straight out to sea,—and the longer we gazed at the "island" the blacker and larger it seemed.
Some time passed before we realized that no progress was being made, but that the obstruction seemed to be just as long and just as much in our way as before. At this point one of the party suggested that we get out the map and find our bearings. We did so, discovering by the light of a lantern that there was no such island anywhere on that part of the coast. How simple it was, and how we had been deceived by what was only an illusion! The rest was easy. Knowing the nature of a mirage we resumed our course without a question, sailing right through the apparent obstruction, which vanished in the process, and in due time we arrived safely home.

January 4, 1919 issue
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The Dawn of a New Era
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The True Commander
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"Comfort ye"
MARION A. BIRCH
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"Love never faileth"
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The Mirage of Evil
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