Article January 12, 1952 Issue

THE INFINITE DISTANCE

JOAN T. FOLLETT

After reminding the Jews that God is the source of good only and that He is without variableness or shadow of turning, James says (1:21), "Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save our souls."

Christian Science demands that: we "lay apart" from our thought of God, man, and the universe all evil, matter, and mentality. The seeming confusion of good and evil, Spirit and matter, Truth and error, arises because mortals have attributed the same confusion to the divine cause, or God, the creator. Conceiving Him as a person capable of making and doing good and evil in His inscrutable wisdom, mortal mind fails utterly to grasp the divine perfection. For only as we "lay apart" from our conception of the divine Father all evil, matter, limitation, and imperfection can we worship "the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy," of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke (57:15).

Sickness gains its spurious and evanescent authority by declaring itself to be part of man, an unwelcome part, which cannot at the moment be eliminated. But Christian Science with its clear insistence upon the allness and goodness of God, Spirit, the divine Principle of man, refuses to accept sickness as an integral part of man, even temporarily, and with tender but inexorable spiritual strength lays the sick belief apart from the individual, thus establishing in consciousness his true existence as an idea in the divine Mind.

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