Article October 3, 1914 Issue

Truth Never Reversed

HON. MRS. FRANCES PORTER

The other day I was having a most interesting conversation with my daughter (aged four) on the subject of cattle, when suddenly she announced, "Horns have cows, mama." Of course she meant to say that cows have horns, but her stumbling set me to thinking. It showed me the mistake all mortals are making. We laugh at the thought of a pair of inanimate horns possessing a cow, making it eat or move or suffer as they want, and is it not equally ridiculous that any organ or part of the material body should govern the image of God?

Man possesses his body and governs its every action. A pair of hands, for instance, cannot make a man steal if he does not want to, and they cannot even suggest stealing to him. They are no more intelligent than the cow's horns; it is Mind which holds the control. Respecting this fact, Mrs. Eddy says: "Exercise this God-given authority. Take possession of your body, and govern its feeling and action. Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man" (Science and Health, p. 393).

Let us refuse any longer to believe the lie that is enslaving the race, the lie that matter possesses and governs man, for, as Isaiah tells us, "the Lord is our lawgiver. ... And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity."

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