Article June 2, 1951 Issue

IT'S UP TO YOU

RUBY M. DROGSETH

Mary Baker Eddy writes as follows in her textbook, "Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 530): "The history of error is a dream-narrative. The dream has no reality, no intelligence, no mind; therefore the dreamer and dream are one, for neither is true nor real."

A young woman, dreaming that she saw a monster leaning over the foot of her bed leering at her, screamed out again and again and then lay trembling, looking up at the creature. At last in a small scared voice she asked, "What are you going to do to me?" The apparition answered: "I don't know. It's up to you. It's your dream!"

What a helpful moral that little story points to the student of Christian Science! We too have had terrifying night dreams and have awakened deeply grateful that they were only dreams, which could have no power over us once we were awake. We have also been confronted by waking-dream monsters in the form of disease, accident, poverty, grief, or sin. To the uninstructed in Christian Science these monsters seem real and powerful, but the Christian Scientist knows that such apparitions have no more power than the one in the night dream, unless we give them power in our thinking. Are we going to do this? The answer still is: "It's up to you. It's your dream!"

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