Article August 6, 1927 Issue

To Come Out of Tribulation

ROBERT BAKER

In one of those dynamic sentences which abound in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy shows that men may exercise God-given dominion over the falsities of the carnal mind, with its brood of evils. She says on page 403, "You command the situation if you understand that mortal existence is a state of self-deception and not the truth of being." It makes no difference what form of error may be manifested, whether sickness or sin, the infallible remedy is to apply the great truth revealed in Christian Science, that man is idea, inseparable from his Maker. In other words, it is our right to prove the scientific fact stated by Paul in Acts, that in God we do indeed "live, and move, and have our being." It is through the affirmation of man's unity with God, accompanied by the simultaneous denial of sense-testimony, however persistent it may be, that men come out of that "great tribulation" to which John refers in Revelation.

Persistently applied, this affirmation and denial bring the realization that tribulation in reality is a myth, "a state of self-deception." However variable the guise in which the temptation to believe in the actuality of tribulation may present itself, in lifting thought above sense-testimony, one discovering its unreality comes out of the delusion, and learns that his knowledge of its unreality has freed him from its painful or distressing manifestation.

There is but one place wherein to search for the adversary. In human consciousness alone can the uncovering and the overcoming of the false belief concerning man's relation to God take place and freedom be attained. The right idea must displace the false concept. The right idea acts in accordance with and in obedience to God's law. Necessarily, therefore, it must be the victor, since God's law when applied exterminated enslaving concepts. Whatever the form selfdeception may take, the freeing of human thought from the seeming incubus is attained only by this procedure. Our deliverance—the process of emergence from the belief that tribulation is a reality—is through the uncovering and exposure, and consequent destruction, of the false belief. The revelation of man's perpetual at-one-ment with infinite Mind shows that evil always was devoid of source or origin, substance or being. This includes the recognition that there can be no other action than that which proceeds from and is the effect of divine Mind.

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