Article September 2, 1939 Issue

Overcoming Belief in Errors of the Past

ETHEL M. BARTLETT

"God requireth that which is past," we learn from the Scriptures. The healing power of this truth is being realized daily by many men and women, as the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, are earnestly and prayerfully studied. Indeed, it is a truth that must be assimilated and applied before mankind can be freed from the shackles of fear, anxiety, and other ills that are so hampering to progress.

In the first chapter of Genesis we read that God made man in His image and likeness, and also that God pronounced all that He had made to be "very good." God always has been the same. He always has been and always will be "incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love," as we read on page 465 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. He is unchangeable good. Therefore, since man is made in God's image and likeness, is God's reflection, man can never be or have anything that is unlike good. He never can be sick or sinning; never needs to be healed.

We sometimes hear people talk about the sicknesses and other difficulties which they experienced before they took up the study of Christian Science, as if those discordant conditions were realities. It is important for us to realize that man is now and ever has been the reflection of perfect, indestructible Life, and that all that men need to be healed of are erroneous beliefs.

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