In Christian Science we learn the wisdom of positive action against error. Humanity seems to be confronted with myriad discordant conditions. To give no heed to these seeming dangers until one of them intrudes upon us is a negative position. We need to demonstrate more positively the freedom which divine, intelligence supplies.
As long as the belief of the existence of a mortal man and a material universe is held in consciousness, mankind will have to defend itself against the claims of lack and infirmity which come from this belief. Mary Baker Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 411), "Disease is always induced by a false sense mentally entertained, not destroyed." Christian Science eliminates the false sense through the positive resistance of true prayer. Unceasing prayer is the course recommended in the Scriptures for those who would prove the powerlessness of evil. This is the course followed by the Christian Scientist. He takes positive action to advance the understanding of God's kingdom, the consciousness of harmony, among men. He recognizes that the battle against evil is in the mental realm; and it is in that realm that he marshals forces to oppose it.
The Christian Scientist continually holds before consciousness the great facts of spiritual being: that God reigns omnipotently in a universe which has not one quality of error; that the real man is God's reflection. His beloved son, heir to the infinite goodness of his heavenly Father, and to nothing else. The one thus praying realizes that evil of any sort is an error of mortal sense and actually has no reality; that therefore it is powerless to cause him any discord. As the student seeks to hold to these healing and saving truths, he seems at times to be assailed by opposing claims which clamor for recognition as reality. Wordsworth wrote,
