Editorial September 29, 1956 Issue

THE MYTH OF ERROR'S TENACITY

Harold Molter

Christ Jesus , our Way-shower, once called to him a woman who had suffered from "a spirit of infirmity eighteen years" (Luke 13:11). She was bent over in a fixed position and could not straighten up. Telling the woman that she was free from her infirmity, Jesus healed her. In this and other experiences, the Master proved the tenacity of error or evil to be a myth.

To mortal sense, sickness, sin, poverty, evil habits, often seem to enslave an individual. We sometimes hear it said, "I cannot shake off this cold," or, "I cannot get these evil thoughts out of my mind," or, "I cannot do anything about this condition; it just hangs on." Yet in Christian Science we learn that evil or error in whatever form is without power or existence. How can that which has no reality, no origin, fasten itself to the individual? It cannot. Since evil is nothing, it has no intelligence or form and has no ability to take hold of anything. Therefore evil has no tenacity. Only the false belief that sin, sickness, or any discord is real seems to give it tenacity.

The woman who had suffered for eighteen years from what seemed an intrenched physical infirmity was healed instantly of the false belief which she was convinced belonged to her. But Jesus saw the unreality of the error and the perfection and freedom of man in God's likeness. His correct understanding of the allness of good and the nothingness of evil enabled him to heal the woman of the false belief from which she had suffered for many years.

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