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FUNDAMENTALS

Truth Is Practical

An early lesson about God's control over all never ceases to be useful and powerful.

From the August 2000 issue of The Christian Science Journal


When I was ten years old my Sunday School teacher taught our class how we could pray if we hurt ourselves—if we scraped our knees roller-skating, for instance. She taught us to immediately deny that accidents can occur in God's kingdom; next, to replace the claim of accident with the truth that only harmony is real; and, finally, to rely wholeheartedly on God's power to enforce that truth. She was following Mrs. Eddy's guidance in Science and Health: "When an accident happens, you think or exclaim, I am hurt! your thought is more powerful than your words, more powerful than the accident itself, to make the injury real.

"Now reverse the process. Declare that you are not hurt and understand thereason why, and you will find the ensuing good effects to be in exact proportion to your disbelief in physics, and your fidelity to divine meta-physics, confidence in God as All, which the Scriptures declare Him to be."Science and Health, p. 397.

Little did that teacher know just how her teaching would come to my aid when I needed it.

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