Article December 1, 1923 Issue

Error can have no origin in infinite Mind, and must...

Miss Blanche Stievenard, Committee on Publication for Hertfordshire, England,—Letchworth

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Error can have no origin in infinite Mind, and must therefore be reduced to its native nothingness. Asking where errors come from is like asking where discord in music comes from, or where a mistake in a mathematical calculation comes from. Can one say where the error two and two make five comes from? Yet this mistake is often found on a child's slate, and must be corrected by the truth that two and two make four; and so, the error is reduced to nothingness. To say that mortal error must emanate from infinite Truth, or Mind, is to say that sweet water and bitter can come from the same fountain. To say that error has any foundation in fact is to suppose a creator other than God, which would mean two creators perpetually at war with each other. It remains, therefore, for mortal error to be corrected with immortal Truth, and so banished from consciousness. "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so," wrote Shakespeare. In conclusion, may I add this one sentence from the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 129): "So in Christian Science there are no discords nor contradictions, because its logic is as harmonious as the reasoning of an accurately stated syllogism or of a properly computed sum in arithmetic. Truth is ever truthful, and can tolerate no error in premise or conclusion."

I cannot help telling the truth as I view it, describing what I see. To describe it otherwise than it seems to me would be falsehood in that calling in which it has pleased Heaven to place me; treason to that conscience which says that men are weak, that truth must be told, that faults must be owned, that pardon must be prayed for, and that Love reigns over all.—Thackeray.

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