Article July 28, 1956 ISSUE

BANISHMENT OF ERROR

KATE HOLLAND PATTON

The Christian Scientist finds a strong impetus toward spiritual healing and confidence in the permanence of that healing through the study of the Bible and the works of Mary Baker Eddy. In our great textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 391), "Banish the belief that you can possibly entertain a single intruding pain which cannot be ruled out by the might of Mind, and in this way you can prevent the development of pain in the body." Of all words that one might use to clarify this sentence and stabilize its substance, surely none could introduce the idea more perfectly than the word "banish."

We note in the sentence that it is "the belief" which is to be banished. Here is pointed out the way to permanent freedom, for everyone is at liberty to decide whether helpful or erroneous beliefs are to be entertained in consciousness. In the last analysis, then, we see that it is not the return of pain which causes concern, but the return of the belief that pain and disease are real, that they are self-constituted entities, liable to manifest themselves, at any moment with power to come and go of their own volition. Mrs. Eddy gives further helpful counsel along this line in the textbook (p. 381), "Let us banish sickness as an outlaw, and abide by the rule of perpetual harmony,—God's law."

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