Article August 7, 1965 Issue

A Moment of Decision

MARY TAYLOR FORD

Christian Science teaches that God created all and that His creation is eternally and uninterruptedly perfect. If this fact is accepted wholeheartedly, with steadfastness, evil, whatever its form, fades into the nothingness it really is.

To illustrate: a student of Christian Science inadvertently picked up a hot iron skillet with her bare hand. Immediately the suggestion came, "I burned my hand." Instead of mesmerically accepting this as fact, she countered with the affirmation that she was spiritual. She declared that Spirit cannot be burned nor experience suffering; therefore neither could she. She completely disregarded what matter presented as irrefutable and maintained what she knew to be scientifically true.

During that moment of decision she affirmed the reality of man, made in God's image, instead of accepting what the senses asked her to believe. Because of that, she experienced not one second of discomfort nor any aftereffects of soreness or scar. Instead, her heart sang in joyous freedom at having put aside, in this instance, the bondage of physicality.

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