Article January 28, 1967 Issue

Put Out the Fire!

ELIZABETH BICE LUERSSEN

Anyone who has ever been around a blazing campfire knows that the fire is fed by adding more wood. If one wants the fire to go out, he stops feeding it, scatters the coals, and perhaps throws on buckets of water until the last embers have died out.

In a sermon delivered in Boston, Mrs. Eddy draws this interesting analogy between a fire and the overcoming of sin and disease: "Contending for the reality of what should disappear is like furnishing fuel for the flames." Christian Healing, p. 9;

The infinitude of God, good, and the unreality of all evil is one of the basic teachings of Christian Science. Mrs. Eddy writes: "This Science rebukes sin with its own nothingness, and thus destroys sin quickly and utterly. It makes disease unreal, and this heals it." No and Yes, p. 13; The Christian Scientist who firmly insists, "It's not real!" even in the face of discordant sense testimony, is taking active steps toward putting out the fires of inharmony. By pouring on the waters of joy, gratitude, and expectancy of good instead of adding the fuel of fear, impatience, discouragement, and acquiescence in evil, he will aid in extinguishing the flames and embers of disease in his experience.

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