Article May 25, 1946 Issue

"To divest thought of false trusts"

GEORGIA S. AMME

Present-day conditions offer great opportunities for proving practical the teachings of Christian Science. Economic instability, sin, sickness, and decrepitude are crying for recognition at the door of human thinking. In an effort to thwart these untoward conditions noteworthy institutions have been founded. Many individuals with a love of humanity in their hearts have given unstintingly of their time, energy, and finances that a better order of living might be attained by those in want. Granting that such charitable motives are commendable, and that suffering has been alleviated to some extent through these benevolences, the problems have continued to exist.

The woes of humanity began with the eating of "the tree of knowledge of good and evil," as recorded in the third chapter of Genesis. This false knowledge, which is opposed to God, good, has continued to hold men in bondage down through the ages, and until the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy mortals were unable to free themselves from its baneful effects.

All Christian peoples admit that there is one God, that He is the only creator, and that He is all-powerful. But until the truth as revealed by Christian Science dawns on human thought, it is not discerned that fear of lack, love of power, indulgence of self-will, and reliance on material methods are, in the final analysis, a reversal of these fundamental spiritual facts. Christian Science provides an effective way by which men can free themselves from the devastating results of misplaced reliance. On page 428 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy we read, "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."

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