WHEN a picture has been taken on a film, prints are made by placing the film over chemically sensitive paper and exposing both to strong light. Chemical changes then take place on the paper, and the impression left on the paper by the film is the picture. If a piece of ordinary white paper were used in place of the chemically sensitive paper, no impression would result. There would be no picture. Only sensitive paper will receive the impression.
The troubles of mankind are due largely to unhappy experiences in the past, which have left what sometimes seem to be indelible impressions on a mortal's thought. Such impressions result from unhappy marriages, years of personal domination or nagging, wrongs done against innocence, injustices through deceit and dishonesty that have seemed to upset the whole course of the victim's life, burdens imposed by others too heavy to bear, personal feuds, and the cruel pictures left by war.
Christian Science offers a complete and effective remedy which, when rightly and persistently applied, erases from consciousness all such memories of evil on the simple basis that man's only true consciousness is spiritual, and is eternally and uninterruptedly conscious only of God and His altogether good creation. This consciousness, like the insensitive paper, incapable of receiving an impression from the film, has no element of sensitiveness to the impressions of evil. It cannot receive or hold negative impressions. God's positive thoughts and ideas are its eternal substance and life.
