Article September 30, 1905 Issue

Good, a Standard

HORATIO W. NELSON.

MANY critics have said that the Christian Scientist's denial of evil's reality is absurd. It will, however, be found to be entirely logical if given a little earnest consideration. It may be stated without dispute that sin is evil and is simply another name for error; in other words, that it is not truth, and that the correction of an error should leave nothing to take its place.

The word truth, taken in its broader significance, and the word science considered in the same way, represent standards,—perfect Principle, fixed laws, perfect harmony, and so on. In Mrs. Eddy's writings we learn that whatever is true belongs necessarily to the essential reality of things, and as we ponder over her wonderfully comprehensive statements a clear path is opened up for the investigator into the philosophy and demonstration of Christian Science.

It is advisable in considering this subject to start with a clean page and a clearly stated premise. The primal reality, or cause of being, cannot be finite, that is to say, it is absolutely unthinkable that the creator of all could ever have had a beginning or an ending. The human mind, therefore, can only state that the origin of cause is simply unthinkable, and that a finite cause or finite creator is self-contradictory. God, the creator, cannot be finite, and therefore must necessarily be infinite.

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