Article April 14, 1906 Issue

Christian Scientists do not deny that to mortal sense evil...

John H. Williams

The Florida Times-Union

Christian Scientists do not deny that to mortal sense evil in all its phases is as real as any physical phenomena. These material conditions seem real to sense perception, from the fact that the physical senses are material. Paul says, "We look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal ; but the things which are not seen are eternal."

If we accept the fact that God is Spirit, omnipotent and omnipresent, we must accept the deductions made by Christian Science, for it in no way departs from this basis of Life. If Spirit is substance, is real and eternal, and fills all space, it must follow, as indicated in the statement just quoted, that matter, the opposite of Spirit, with all its conditions, including every phase of evil, must be "temporal," or unreal. Can we touch, taste, smell, see, or hear God, through the physical senses? No. Therefore, the Scripture says, "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God," because the materialist is guided in his sense of God, man, and the universe by the physical senses. If we believe in God, we cannot believe in or accept the physical senses as being real or true, for they furnish no evidence of God, and it must, therefore, be admitted that matter is neither real nor eternal.

Truth is the understanding of God and man as His image and likeness; the understanding of the unreality of evil, matter, and all that is opposed to God. Error is the opposite of truth; the belief in the reality of evil, sin, disease, death, matter,—the belief that Spirit is not omnipotent and omnipresent.

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