IT is an essential part of Christian Science practice to let Truth uncover error, and thus prove error's inability to mar or to disturb in any way the man created in God's image and likeness. Evil uncondemned or undetected becomes more aggressive, or more subtle; and the error may pass for good until Truth uncovers its hidden methods. Error would try to bind, limit, distort, impoverish, misrepresent; but through the teachings of Christian Science we learn the all-important truth about it— that it does not exist at all.
Jesus fearlessly uncovered and rebuked error; he knew it had no power, and his clear vision of spiritual reality quickly detected and destroyed it. He knew that material sense is but a mask of ignorance, which cannot destroy the ever-perfection of God's universe. It merely hides perfection from view till the beliefs of material existence, and of good and evil as real, are seen to be illusions. Each must turn from matter to Spirit, if he would realize his true heritage as God's child, and learn that error or evil has no power or law and that all that is beautiful, good, and true, all that makes for peace and true content, is of God, and is permanent. Christian Science teaches that mortal mind is only the supposititious opposite of divine Mind; and as divine Mind is infinite, self-existent, the only cause, mortal mind is negative, error—nothing. It has no place, power, or opportunity to act, no intelligence to interfere with God's loving control of His perfect, spiritual universe, including man.
As an instance of how, in belief, mortal mind gives power to error, the following experience may be helpful. A student of Christian Science who formerly had been in the medical profession, and during that period had tried many times to get rid of an ugly wart, decided to apply her little knowledge of Christian Science. Soon after it was discovered that the top part of the wart had disappeared, but the bottom part remained; and the student unthinkingly remarked, Now there is only the root to go. She was surprised and disappointed when she saw that it began to grow again. However, denying discouragement, and continuing her right thinking about it, she suddenly realized that in her own admission she herself had given it the only "root" it seemed to have. As she worked she realized that divine Mind is the only cause, and this Mind being pure, perfect, loving, no ugly thoughts have place in it, and as there are no ugly thoughts or roots in divine Mind, and there is no mortal mind at all, the wart had no root anywhere. In a few days it had completely disappeared. Error seen as error soon disappears.
