Article January 1, 1949 Issue

FALSE BELIEFS ARE THE COUNTERFEITS OF TRUTH

Josephine Killough Fitzgerald

At a meeting in Washington, District of Columbia, bankers from different parts of the United States were taught how it was possible to recognize counterfeit bills and coins. Later, addressing a member of this group, someone said, "I suppose you saw hundreds of samples of counterfeit money at your meeting."

"No, we didn't see a single counterfeit during the entire meeting," replied the banker; "in fact, all we studied were the genuine coins and bills. We were drilled and drilled on the characteristic markings of government money and were told that if we became thoroughly familiar with the real bills and coins, we would be able to detect a bogus bill or coin instantly."

So it is in Christian Science. As one earnestly and assiduously studies the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, together with her other writings, he learns the truth about God and man, His image and likeness. This Science reveals and emphasizes again and again the allness and perfection of God and the spirituality of man—his perfectness, immortality, purity, uprightness, and his inseparability from his Maker. Having learned the truth about God's man, the student of Christian Science recognizes so–called mortal man as the counterfeit, the inverted likeness. He readily detects sin, sickness, death, false appetites, lack, sorrow, restlessness, indecision, doubt, and all discords as false beliefs, counterfeits of Truth, having no relationship to his real manhood.

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