Article May 14, 1979 Issue

A way to escape

LOWELL N. CANNON

You will never be hopelessly trapped. No matter how desperate a predicament may seem, there is always a way out. The Bible gives this assurance: "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."^{I Cor. 10:13;}

This "way to escape" referred to by Paul is not found in material things or thoughts, as perhaps you have already discovered. Attempting to run from problems by resorting to drugs, alcohol, or any other form of escapism is like trying to get out of a burning building by putting on a blindfold instead of looking for the fire escape. We may be temporarily deluded into thinking the problem has gone, when actually it may be worse.

Then how do we escape the snares of evil? By admitting an eternal fact: the unreality of evil. Mrs. Eddy marks the way when, in exposing the sin of mental malpractice—wrongful manipulation of the human mind—she declares: "Christian Science shows that there is a way of escape from the latter-day ultimatum of evil, through scientific truth ...."^{Miscellaneous Writings, p. 113;}