"How is a mistake to be rectified?" Mrs. Eddy asks in an article in "Unity of Good" (p. 20), and she replies, "By reversal or revision,—by seeing it in its proper light, and then turning it or turning from it."
This direct means of dealing with evil came quickly to my thought as I listened to an emergency news broadcast which announced that an extremely dangerous hurricane, with tremendously destructive potential, was soon to hit the area. Turning to Mrs. Eddy's writings, I found the above quotation and proceeded to read further: "Through these three statements, or misstatements, evil comes into authority:—
First: The Lord created it.
"Second: The Lord knows it.
"Third: I am afraid of it.