Article May 15, 1937 Issue

Christlike Simplicity

ALFRED MARSHALL VAUGHN

Paul , in his second letter to the Corinthians, said, "I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ."

There is a tendency to let error deceive us into thinking that it is real, and that we should work against it as if it were something actual. Also, there is the tendency to let mortal mind deceive us into thinking that error has so many ramifications that we should be constantly handling each one of its various beliefs. Believing this, some are kept so busy that they hardly have any time to dwell upon the fact of God's allness, His love and care, the perfection of man, and the beauty and wonder of the spiritual universe.

Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 472), "Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter." Error can never be anything but supposition. It can never have any reality. "If God, or good, is real, then evil, the unlikeness of God, is unreal. And evil can only seem to be real by giving reality to the unreal," our beloved Leader writes (ibid., p. 470). We shall not give reality to error, or make it out to be something, if we keep before us the fact that it is only a supposition, and that even a glimpse of Truth prevents us from being deceived by this supposition.

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