Editorial November 12, 1960 Issue

"Nothing shall by any means hurt you"

John J. Selover

Error cannot touch God, and it cannot touch man's true selfhood, his godliness, according to Christian Science. What then does evil touch? It touches only the false belief that we are mortals, in other words, our suppositional mortal-mindedness.

God and our real identity are completely apart from the dream of mortality. It is impossible for that which is mortal and erroneous to affect in any way that which is immortal and true. Mrs. Eddy points out in Science and Health (p. 300): "The temporal and unreal never touch the eternal and real. The mutable and imperfect never touch the immutable and perfect. The inharmonious and self-destructive never touch the harmonious and self-existent."

Darkness is but a mortal belief in the absence of light, and that negative condition, no matter how hard it might seem to try, cannot decrease light's intensity. Man's true identity is not within the reach of any material belief or condition. Paul declared (II Cor. 6:14, 15): "What communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial?"

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