Article March 30, 1940 Issue

Removing the Tarnish

[Written Especially for Young People]

MAY W. MATHIAS

A Class of young people in a Christian Science Sunday School were listening to the references from the Bible and from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. The subject for the week was "Man," and one selection read from Science and Health (p. 428) was, "To divest thought of false trusts and material evidences in order that the spiritual facts of being may appear,—this is the great attainment by means of which we shall sweep away the false and give place to the true."

One of the girls in the class said, "Oh, that is like removing the tarnish from the silverware, and finding the beautiful pattern and shining surface to be perfect, even though it has been hidden by discoloration, perhaps for many years." This illustration has proved helpful many times to the teacher of that class when disease or sin has appeared to be real and tenacious. Remove the tarnish! Destroy the deceptive illusion, and behold man as God made him—perfect!

Another Sunday school pupil showed evidence of a so-called contagious disease. He told his mother that when he saw his reflection in the mirror he was not afraid. Through his understanding of the real nature of man, as God's image, he was able to "divest thought of false trusts and material evidences," and in a very short time "the spiritual facts of being" did appear, and his healing was complete. We read in Science and Health (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick."

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