Article October 3, 1931 Issue

Impotence of Evil

LEWIS REX MILLER

CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS derive help and comfort from the prophet's words concerning God, "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity." In "Unity of Good" (p. 20) Mrs. Eddy assures us that "God never made evil," that "He knows it not," and that "we therefore need not fear it."

Helpful, also, is the corollary of these propositions, namely, that evil, error, does not know God, good. And since it does not know good, cannot recognize or comprehend it, any effectual attack of error upon Truth is unthinkable; for how can an imaginary force be directed against something of which it cannot even be cognizant?

Christian Scientists are taught that there can be no blending of good and evil, Truth and error. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 281): "Spirit and matter no more commingle than light and darkness. When one appears, the other disappears." Spirit dwells in the eternal realm of reality; matter has its supposed existence only in mortal thought. Any conjunction of the two is impossible, for a right idea cannot include any element of falsehood; nor can a material thought reflect any quality of true spirituality.

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