Editorial June 11, 1955 Issue

"TOO LARGE OR TOO LITTLE"

Harold Molter

Christian Science teaches the individual how to detect and handle all evil—every belief of life in matter. To do this one must follow the admonition of Jesus, who said that men should always pray and not become weary in so doing. In other words, the Christian Scientist's duty is to cultivate the practice of steadfastly distinguishing between error and Truth, evil and good, matter and Spirit.

To pray without ceasing is to be ever alert to admit as true and real only those thoughts which have their origin in Spirit. All other thoughts or appearances based on materiality constitute evil, which is also called animal magnetism, hypnotism, mesmerism, or mental suggestion. Evil or animal magnetism includes everything in human existence which is unlike God.

Mary Baker Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 318), "Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making sin seem either too large or too little." And on the following page she writes of Christian Scientists, "Their habit of mental and audible protest against the reality of sin, tends to make sin less or more to them than to other people."

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