Article August 29, 1959 Issue

REVERSE IT!

CAROL EARLE CHAPIN

In everyday language, reverse and reverses are often associated with ill fortune or financial loss. A firm or an individual is said to have suffered reverses. However, it is obvious that if you reverse something bad, you will arrive at something good.

Christian Science teaches us to reverse error of all kinds with good. Our privilege is to take error's suggestion and turn it around, upside down, or inside out and so arrive at the unchanging spiritual fact. Error's suggestions are only counterfeits of true and spiritual facts. In the realm of the real, the realm of God, Spirit, spiritual facts are irreversible.

In Christian Science, error and its supposed activity are termed animal magnetism. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 442), "Neither animal magnetism nor hypnotism enters into the practice of Christian Science, in which truth cannot be reversed, but the reverse of error is true."

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