Don't let the conjurer trick you

Robert A. Moss

Have you ever seen a conjurer do magic tricks like changing a handkerchief into a walkingstick or making an object vanish? Perhaps you have seen one on television or had one at your party to entertain you.

What extraordinary things he does! He does the tricks so well that you almost believe in magic—that the coin does disappear into thin air and the milk in the glass really does turn into a flag. But you know it's all a trick, don't you—clever, but just an illusion. A conjurer is sometimes called an illusionist, because he creates illusions.

You can be just as sure about another kind of trickery or illusion—the illusion that would make you believe that disease, anger, unkindness, accident, or other evil things are true. Sometimes such errors seem so real that you might be fooled into believing in them. But Mary Baker Eddy^{Mrs. Eddy is the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science .} says of error, "It is that which seemeth to be and is not."^{Science and Health, p. 472.}