Editorial February 8, 1964 Issue

Evil Is Not Real

Carl. J. Welz

Every moment presents to human consciousness a picture of good and evil. Sometimes the good appears to predominate, and at other times evil seems to govern. When evil predominates we say we have a problem, and we take steps to overcome the evil. Christian Science shows us the one basis for solving the problem. It is the fact that God is good, the All-in-all. Evil is not real.

When I was a very small boy, my father smoked a pipe. But he began, with my mother, to study the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mrs. Eddy. In this study he learned something of God as infinite Principle, the one and only Spirit. But there seemed to be another spirit that told him he loved his pipe and would not give it up. One day he went to work forgetting to take his pipe—something he had never done before. He did not think of it until he came home that night and found it resting on the table.

Thinking to enjoy a smoke he proceeded to light the pipe only to discover that it tasted awful. His study of the truth in Christian Science had lifted his consciousness, purified it to a degree, and this gave him a new view of things. In this new view the taste of tobacco was an evil thing, and its claim to be attractive was obviously false. He never smoked again.

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