Several years ago at the New York World's Fair many people "saw" a stone that wasn't there. Approaching a display at the Christian Science Pavilion, visitors were invited to pick up a stone apparently lying on a table. They would then discover that what looked like solid form was only an image of light and color. The purpose of the display was to show that the material senses often give deceptive impressions.
Mankind feel many hindrances to enjoyment of life, health, and happiness. Like the image at the fair, these can be found substanceless. Happily, they can be proved illusory through one's learning to demonstrate Christian Science, which teaches one how to see beyond mere appearance to spiritual fact. Through understanding this Science one finds that circumstances ordinarily assumed to be outside his control have no power of themselves to rob one of his well-being. In Christian Science one learns that it is not primarily a condition that needs changing in order to experience harmony but his own thought about the condition.
We are accustomed to optical illusions of various kinds; however, we are not always so alert to the deception of the sense of touch, or feeling, although if we consider it, we can perhaps recall being so deceived. The writer was once deceived by a feeling of pain that indicated a cavity in a tooth. It was then discovered that there was no cavity and no physical reason for the pain, which quickly disappeared when a sense of anxiety was overcome through Christian Science.
