Article November 29, 1952 Issue

NO TEMPTER OR TEMPTED IN GOD'S ALLNESS

[Of Special Interest to Young People]

L. PRESCOTT PLATT

The summer that Frank was thirteen he began giving in to a certain temptation. Now Frank had attended the Christian Science Sunday School for a long time, and he understood something of God's allness and the fact that nothing is real but God and His spiritual ideas. He soon saw that giving in to this temptation was not being a good Christian Scientist, so he wanted to overcome it.

Christian Science had healed him many times and made his life a happy one, and he loved this Science very much. Because of all the good that he had received from it in the past, he was sure he could apply it in overcoming the temptation that was claiming to come into his experience. It was not easy at first, but Frank saw that the false sense of mind, which Christian Science calls mortal mind, would try to make this particular temptation become a habit with him.

The truth of God's allness became extremely clear to Frank as he prayed, and whenever the temptation came to him he would declare that because God is All-in-all there could be no temptation to present itself to him. Finally this young working Christian Scientist could see that since God is All, not only was the temptation false, but the mortal sense of man as a boy being tempted was equally unreal. A material boy struggling with temptation was only a false sense of his real selfhood, which he knew to be entirely spiritual, the reflection of divine Mind, God.

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