Article December 26, 1925 Issue

Daily Work

MARJORIE SHULER

HUMANITY constantly seeks some means of escape from circumstances which it regards either as unpleasant or dangerous. This has given rise to the writing of many fanciful, imaginative tales in which mortals are portrayed as gaining their freedom, not through the courage and intelligence with which they may face adverse conditions, but through utilization of some magical process by which it is pretended that they are rendered invisible. In other words, they do not vanquish evil; they vanish from a scene where evil seems to be active.

Christian Science shows that there is a real way to escape evil of every kind. But that way is not won by evading or ignoring the belief of evil. It is achieved through proving, demonstrating, that evil has no power or presence, no reality, since it is not created or sustained by God; and that man, the reflection of God, cannot be touched by any form of evil. As the Psalmist said, "Thou hast put all things under his feet." As this is proved, evil vanishes from human view, and thought is uplifted to behold the real man, the spiritual image and likeness of God, whose nature was so clearly realized by Jesus that he was able on one occasion to appear to his disciples through closed doors.

The understanding of the real, spiritual nature of God and His idea, man, and of the unreality of evil, which Christian Scientists demonstrate in the destruction of sin, disease, lack, hatred, and such like, does not come in a moment. The purification of the human sense of personality, which brings to view man's true individuality, requires patient, persistent, continual effort. But it is possible for each of us to take simple, orderly steps each day, which will help to lift us out of materiality into the understanding that Mind and the formations of Mind are all that have reality or place on earth as in heaven.

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