Article September 6, 1930 Issue

No Amalgamation of Truth and Error

[Original article in German]

MARTHA E. A. SOOST

TO , the question which we find in the epistle of James, "Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?" everyone would no doubt emphatically return the answer that such a thing would be impossible. And it is just as impossible to combine Truth with its opposite, error.

Merely adding a sweet liquid to a bitter liquid will never remove the bitter taste. In the same way Truth can never make error good; but as Mrs. Eddy says in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 346), "We need to understand that error is nothing, and that its nothingness is not saved, but must be demonstrated in order to prove the somethingness—yea, the allness—of Truth."

When the neophyte in Christian Science feels the beneficial effects of the truth in the healing of disease, he may think that something material has yielded. But, in fact, his healing indicates that he has recognized something of the truth which makes free, the truth of which Christ Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." He has seen the light, hence neither sees nor feels the darkness. Through the explanations of Christian Science something of which he has hitherto had no knowledge is made clear to him. Thought is led to " 'where the young child was,'—even to the birth of a new-old idea, to the spiritual sense of being and of what Life includes," as Mrs. Eddy says on page 191 of Science and Health.

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