Article January 12, 1899 Issue

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What does the Christian Scientist mean by saying that evil is nothing and devoid of power?

Light (to our sense) is something, it is reality, it is cause, it gives greenness to the leaf and color to the flower. Darkness is the absence of light, it is light's opposite. In itself it is not a something, it is not a cause, it is but the absence of the some-thing, light.

"But," says a mistaken one, "it seems real, and if a plant be left in the dark, it loses its color and becomes pale and sickly, therefore," says this deluded person, "this shows that darkness is some thing, and is a power which causes the sickness of the plant." One, however, acquainted with physics says, "Light is the cause, green the effect. The lack of green is not due to darkness, but to the absence of this cause, the light. When the cause or light goes, then the effect or color goes."

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