Editorial November 26, 1960 Issue

"Error, left to itself, accumulates"

John J. Selover

It is of no value to ignore error. In Christian Science the importance of discerning and destroying it is emphasized, and the method of doing so is clearly defined. Christ Jesus said (John 8:32), "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." This does not imply that error should be ignored. Rather does it imply that we should know that man's real being is God's reflection and also understand that error is actually nothing. In Science error is nothing, but its nothingness must be seen, or it will seem to make our lives discordant.

Mrs. Eddy very clearly points out the necessity of dealing with error. She declares in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 348), "Error, left to itself, accumulates." Yes, error if allowed to continue uncondemned draws other errors to it. How vital it is, then, to recognize error as impotent, mindless, without real power of expression, and without any knowledge of its own supposed presence or location! Error cannot accomplish anything of its own will, for it has no will. When it is ignored, we in belief take it into our experience and suffer as a consequence.

In human experience one error —perhaps one that we consider inconsequential—undestroyed is the base upon which another error may build itself into an appearance of respectability. Errors in thought are the procurers of ills in the body, but they cannot have or continue their seeming effect once one acknowledges the universal supremacy of Truth and sees error as false and then totally excludes or ejects it from thought. Evil in thought is a seeming source of a variety of ills. These evils understood as baseless, and scientifically denied, would fall of their own total weakness into oblivion.

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