Article November 27, 1954 Issue

"WHAT IS THAT TO THEE?"

E. MARSHALL GRINDER

In rebuking Peter's curiosity about John, Jesus said to him (John 21:22), "What is that to thee? follow thou me."

Christian Science shows that it is one's duty to cease believing in all things material about oneself and about one's brother. Whether maliciously or ignorantly indulged, the tendency to see ill as real in anyone interferes not only with another's well-being but with one's own as well. Mary Baker Eddy says in our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 476, 477), "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals."

Logically, if one accepts as real the possibilities of sin, disease, and death for others, he renders himself more susceptible to the claims of evil. Therefore it is his business to gain a perfect concept of creation and to defend that concept for the sake of blessing all mankind.

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