That the truth, when known, spontaneously destroys a lie is a generally accepted fact. There is nothing mysterious about the direct and irresistible action of the truth; it is simply impossible for a lie about something to exist in the presence of the truth about that something.
"Truth crushed to earth springs spontaneously upward, and whispers to the breeze man's inalienable birthright—Liberty," writes Mary Baker Eddy in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 128;) and she adds: "'Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.' God is everywhere."
For several years after Christian Science had healed certain of his relatives of physical ills pronounced by physicians incurable, one who afterward became a student of the Science of Christ sought some logical explanation of the sudden healings he had witnessed. He did not believe that there could have been anything supernatural about these healings, yet matter seemed to him so tangible that the wondrous transformation from weakness and depletion to health and strength seemed to him unaccountable. His first glimpse of the fact that matter is never more substantial than a false mental image of mortal mind, was gained when he realized that matter seemed as real to the dreamer in a night dream as it seemed to him when he called himself awake.
