Article October 1, 1938 Issue

Gossip under the Guise of Uncovering Error

HERMANN S. HERING

THE two cardinal points in Christian Science are, first, the allness and infinity of God and His reflection; secondly, the unreality of everything else.

These are fundamentals, and any analysis or work not based thereon is not Christian Science and is not Truth. There is no halfway position. A thing is either real or it is unreal. And if we do not work from this scientific basis, we are not doing scientific work.

One of the essentials in Science is to learn to differentiate between the real and unreal, between Truth and error. Whenever any thought, argument, or evidence presents itself to us, whether it comes from within or from without, our first duty as Scientists is to determine whether it is true or false. If it comes from God it reflects the nature and character of God and will bring us peace, harmony, unity, and healing. If any thought or argument produces friction, dissension, division, disruption, and discord, and if it wounds without healing, then we know it is not of God, and hence is not true, but is a false belief.

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