Article November 27, 1915 Issue

One might think from the recent remarks of an evangelist...

Gordon J. Murray—Muskogee, Okla.

Phoenix

One might think from the recent remarks of an evangelist that Christian Scientists wilfully close their eyes to sinful conditions and without trying to overcome or destroy them pass on with the superficial remark, "There is no sin;" yet nothing could be farther from the truth.

We start in Christian Science from the standpoint that God created all, and "saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." For a thing to be real, then, it must be God-created; all else is but the illusion of material sense. If evil is an absolute reality, it must be of God, and being created by God, it must, in accord with the passage of Scripture just quoted, be "good." Then why try to destroy a thing that is good and God-created? How absurd! God never created evil; therefore we find that in its last analysis evil, being outside of God's creation, is an unreality that only seems to be real to ignorant human consciousness. In its nature it can best be likened to darkness. We readily prove darkness to be unreal, for when a light is brought to the darkness the darkness is dispelled; but all the darkness in the world cannot lessen in the slightest degree the tiny rays of a candle. Jesus came "to give light to them that sit in darkness;" and Christian Science is holding aloft that light which illumines human consciousness and begets a spiritual understanding of the statement of Paul when he said, "There is no power but of God."

By disproving the claim of sin to be real we are better able to advance and destroy it. This also applies to all manner of sickness, for we find that sickness is based on the sin of recognizing a power not of God. On page 357 of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy states, "If what opposes God is real, there must be two powers, and God is not supreme and infinite;" then she asks this very pertinent question: "Can Deity be almighty, if another mighty and self-creative cause exists and sways mankind?"

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