Article October 5, 1957 Issue

"THOU SHALT NOT STEAL"

DOROTHY S. RADER

We know that in Christian Science there is a light for every dark place, a positive spiritual idea for every negative suggestion, and a scientific affirmation for every vapid denial, and these essential truths may be discerned through spiritual sense In pointing out something evil that we should not indulge, each of the Ten Commandments reveals by implication something good that we should love and do.

The eighth commandment (Ex. 20:15), "Thou shalt not steal," is more than a rigid barrier against theft. Keeping this commandment brings to light the abundance of divine good, the blessedness of giving, the joy of service, the justice of honesty. For every suppositional evil there is infinite good with which to overthrow the supposition. But to find the good that is God we must reverse the error.

It has been said that the only truth about a lie is the truth the lie is about. This is more than a clever arrangement of words. When you find the truth concerning the lie, you have reversed evil, and it is gone. In divine Science, good is never reversed, though it may seem to be. Such seeming is but the falsity of mortal mind, claiming reality and power to befool the unwary. An alert Christian Scientist will never allow himself to be fooled by error, but will instead reverse it, knowing that evil must always be reversed when Science is applied to the problem.

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