Article August 15, 1925 Issue

Dropping Dreams

MARION E. TWICHELL

To the beginner in Christian Science, lately lifted from a sense of discord to a sense of freedom, come many problems which must be met and mastered before he can stand firmly, unhampered by sense-testimony, in the understanding of Truth. The writer recalls with gratitude the early years in her own experience in Christian Science, following an instantaneous healing after she had failed to receive any benefit from four surgical operations. The awakened thought accepted without question the truth that perfect effect is ever the result of perfect cause, and also the consequent fact, that of the unreality of these past experiences. The hardest part followed when it was made clear that mortal mind must cease to repeat, or even look back in thought upon, past experiences.

Real growth in the understanding of Christian Science followed only after an honest effort was made not to live the dreams over again. Jesus said, "No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." Just so long as one looks back upon so-called trials and experiences, and rehearses them, in that degree is he yet asleep to reality.

Students of Christian Science who as yet have failed to receive the healing which it offers, will do well to watch and pray to be delivered from the error of looking backward. The beloved Leader of the Christian Science movement, Mary Baker Eddy, in her wonderful understanding of the human heart bids us in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 292) "to forgive and forget whatever is unlike the risen, immortal Love." It is commonly said by mortal mind, ever ready to justify itself for holding to some pet sorrow, that "a living trouble is worse than a dead one." Christian Science destroys this illusion and the self-mesmerism which is its ally, by declaring that no such thing as a "living trouble" has ever existed; that all trouble, since it is a product of the carnal mind, is "dead"; and that because there is really no carnal mind, there is no real evil to look back upon.

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