A CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST had enjoyed a particular newscast during supper. However, when a sponsor began inserting as an advertisement for a patent medicine a highly dramatic, minutely detailed account of a certain bodily function, the listener hastened from the table and turned off the radio. He commented to himself that such an intrusion might seem offensive not merely to Scientists but to all those with normal sensibilities. Soon thereafter he himself started manifesting a disorder of the bodily function mentioned.
He asked himself how he could suffer from what he knew to be unreal? Long ago he had demonstrated that the omnipotence of God, good, precludes the existence of evil; that the apparent results of any false belief about God and His reflection, man, vanish with the vanquishment of the belief.
Suddenly he realized that not the statements he had heard, but his mental response to them had brought about his victimization. When he could cleanse himself of ill feeling, he would no longer feel ill. Almost immediately he gained relief. Better still, he determined henceforth to censor his thoughts instead of censuring other people for their deeds.
