HANDLE error, or it will handle you. To this injunction all students of Christian Science will readily agree; but just how to handle error appears confusing to some. To handle error too much or too little is not in accord with the scientific practice of Christian Science, in which the allness of God and the nothingness of evil are proved. Christian Science is the exact statement of God's allness, His infinitude, the perfection of man and the spiritual universe; and as this is recognized, the unreality of evil is possible of proof.
If we admit the allness of God, we must admit that there is in reality no error from which to shrink in terror. In this way the seeming nature of error is uncovered, not to prove how frightful it is, how it apparently operates to cripple endeavor, to sicken, to kill; but rather, to prove its unreality, because God, good, is actually present where evil dreams of itself, cheating with its empty pretensions and having not one rightful claim to existence.
Error should always be uncovered through right thinking rather than in the supposed confines of mortal mind. To illustrate: Suppose there is a box which is light-proof. We are told how black is the darkness within the box. Would one open it in obscurity as dark as that within it? So doing, one would find darkness both within and without the box, and it would not have been dispelled.
