Article September 30, 1996 ISSUE

Close that door!

Cyprian Leslie Kheswa

If someone leaves the door open during a storm on a wintry night, or when we desire privacy, we shout: Close the door! Useful as such security is, a more fundamental protection is provided when we are wise about when and to what we open the door of thought.

This door is mentioned by Mary Baker Eddy in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany. She writes: "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them. It is plain that nothing can be added to the mind already full. There is no door through which evil can enter, and no space for evil to fill in a mind filled with goodness. Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort" (p. 210).

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