Article February 14, 1925 Issue

The Futility of Running Away

SADIE HYMAN

HOW often we feel like saying, Oh, if I could only run away from it all! At times this may be because things at home are not running smoothly, and it seems to us that if we could only "get out of the house" all would be well. Or, it may be that our business associations are not harmonious, or that discord and division seem to characterize certain of our church relationships. Then the argument comes that if we could only run away from it all we would be happier.

The reason such a suggestion comes to us is that we are making a reality of the difficulty. We are believing that it has place and power; we are admitting that it is of a person or persons; that it is a "local" condition. Christian Science alone can show us the futility of running away, or, in other words, help us solve our problems. It teaches us that "evil has no reality," as Mrs. Eddy says in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 71). "It is neither person, place, nor thing, but is simply a belief, an illusion of material sense." True, evil claims to act through person and place; but the claim is false, and can be destroyed by understanding its unreality—its nothingness—through realizing the allness of God, good.

When we see that an upset home or business, or a discordant church situation, is but a manifestation of wrong thinking, we can then proceed to correct it in the place where it needs to be overcome by us, namely, in our own thought. We do this by applying the truth which Jesus promised would make us free, and which Mrs. Eddy explains in the Christian Science textbook and in her writings.

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