Article March 19, 1960 Issue

ERROR IS MERELY A FALSE REPORT

GORDON V. COMER

It is always a relief to find that the evil we thought was true and present with us was not really true at all. It was merely a false report. The fear we felt before, the despondency, and the heartaches then vanish instantly, for we see that there is no cause for them. This points in a limited and simple sort of way to a divine fact. Actually there is never a cause for evil of any kind, because God, good, is the only cause, and He does not and cannot cause His unlikeness.

In the light of Christian Science teaching, sickness, limitations, and inharmonies of any description are merely false reports, nothing more. The forever-present Christ, showing forth the divinely right idea of everything, is actually and truly present even where the inharmony appears to be. The inharmonious is not really present. It cannot be, because there is no place for it in omnipresent, all-harmonious Truth, or God.

The question then quite naturally presents itself: If I haven't as yet seen the falsity of the report, what do I do? One can see that, obviously, nothing inharmonious can be any part of the divinely right idea of everything. It is the Christ that constitutes the true being of man—of you and of me and of all. The Christ is the very substance, essence, and reality of one's true selfhood. The recognition, the full acceptance, of this divine fact is a law of complete annihilation to the lie.

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