Article July 4, 1931 Issue

Shutting Out Error

EDNA B. WILLIAMS

It was late afternoon of a spring day. In a Christian Science Reading Room the slanting rays of a golden sunset fell across the floor. Busy with routine work and much absorbed in her task, the librarian sat at her desk, while the occupants of the study room read or quietly engaged in prayer and meditation. Sweet peace and quietness reigned throughout the place.

Suddenly through an open window came shrill cries and angry voices, filling the room with a hubbub of discordant sounds. A group of small boys had been engaged in a game of marbles in the street directly under the window. Evidently a dispute had arisen among them, and, judging from the sounds, all were striving to voice their displeasure and to state their opinions at once.

The occupants of the room looked up from their work: study was quite impossible in this confusion of sounds. Then the librarian arose, and going quickly to the window, dropped the heavy sash. Instantly the noise ceased, as far as the Reading Room was concerned, and quietness was restored. As the librarian passed a study table to return to her desk, a visitor, looking up with a pleasant smile, said, "How easily we can shut out error!" The incident passed, but often during the intervening years these words have recurred to the writer: "How easily we can shut out error! "

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Article

Transformation and Proof