Article June 20, 1959 Issue

PREVENTION AND PROTECTION

MATILDA GABRIEL LOWEN

Let us not make the mistake in daily affairs that a little girl made who, while learning to ride a bicycle, ran into a tree because she kept her gaze on the tree instead of on the path that avoided it. The Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, puts it this way (p. 234): "We should become more familiar with good than with evil, and guard against false beliefs as watchfully as we bar our doors against the approach of thieves and murderers."

When we become "more familiar with good than with evil" and alertly reject what is untrue concerning God and man, we are putting into action the rule for scientifically preventing human ills and successfully protecting health, happiness, and progress.

Because good and evil are opposites, contrary one to the other, they can never unite at any time or under any circumstance. The Bible reveals that there is but one God, who created all and pronounced all that He created good. Therefore what is not good is not created and must be characterized as evil, as untrue and illegitimate. Suffering, lack, and discord are not good but are the opposite of good. In Christian Science they are accurately designated as false beliefs about God and His creation.

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