Article October 24, 1959 Issue

UTILIZING "THE EXPLANATION WHICH DESTROYS ERROR"

CLYDE D. CAREY

"When error confronts you, withhold not the rebuke or the explanation which destroys error," we read on page 452 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. To allow any form of error to grow upon thought or to fail to refute the false arguments of mortal mind is to be in danger of becoming convinced of error's reality.

Sometimes if we agree with the error confronting us in the form of false accusations or unwarranted condemnation or if we let it go unrebuked mentally, our ability to defend ourselves is weakened. The evil purpose of an aggressive charge or allegation is invariably defeated if the accusation is promptly denied and the true fact of man's spiritual perfection, as revealed by Christian Science, is persistently affirmed.

If our thought is disturbed or troubled over any circumstance, is it not because, consciously or unconsciously, we have permitted an erroneous suggestion to encroach upon our consciousness and assume an appearance of reality? Whether the circumstance concerns oneself or is something beyond one's personal environment, the remedy is equally important and equally effective.

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