No Eruptions

ROBERT A. MOSS

The skin eruptions I used to suffer from caused me both mental and physical discomfort. One morning when I had an important appointment I shrank from appearing with a blemished face. Earnestly I turned to God for help. A passage from Science and Health that had greatly impressed me and that I had read and pondered many times flashed into thought. Mrs. Eddy's words are these: "By its own volition, not a blade of grass springs up, not a spray buds within the vale, not a leaf unfolds its fair outlines, not a flower starts from its cloistered cell."^{ Science and Health, p. 191;}

The realization that no cause or force exists other than the one creative divine Mind, God, good, brought me immediate release from the threat of disfigurement.

It is sometimes said that skin eruptions are manifestations of mental irritation. Certainly irritation, apprehension, explosive temper, and other errors, exposed, can rouse us to the need of guarding consciousness against invasion by ungodly thoughts that may, in turn, manifest themselves physically. At the same time, let's guard ourselves against the notion that skin blemishes or any other physical abnormalities are necessarily the result of sinful thinking. Fleshly ills in general are the outcome of the commonly accepted belief in sentient matter, or in the reality of disease, or in a power apart from God—all phases of animal magnetism. We can refute these ignorant, godless beliefs with an understanding of man's inviolable freedom from disease under God's benign law. God didn't make disease; therefore it has no maker, for there is no other power or creator.

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