Can a man look a wild tiger in the eye and see it retreat before him? A nineteenth century British officer and administrator told of having this experience in the Mahableshwur hills in Western India. "By looking a tiger fearlessly in the eye," Mrs. Eddy writes of the incident, "Sir Charles Napier sent it cowering back into the jungle. . . . This latter occurrence represents the power of Truth over error,—the might of intelligence exercised over mortal beliefs to destroy them." Science and Health,p.378; see Mary Baker Eddy Mentioned Them,p.156;
When confronted by some menacing condition, you too can face it down. The divine truth of man's being as the expression of Spirit reduces matter to a mistaken view of man, and its threats of harm to lying impositions.
I once healed myself of influenza overnight by fearlessly and resolutely routing the sense of disease, handling it strictly as a mental invader, a lawless suggestion. Like the British officer, I faced it down. Two strong points from an article I had been reading in the Journal came to my aid. I recognized that everything is thought and consequently what appears to be the physical realm comes under the control of the one Mind. I knew that a healing in Christian Science is more than the healing of a physical condition; it is the yielding of material belief to spiritual understanding.
