Article September 4, 1915 Issue

The New Tongue

ALBERT E. MILLER

Christian Science is in truth the new tongue foretold in thhe gospels. It bears constant testimony that God is indeed dwelling among men; that His promises as set forth in the ancient days are fulfilled in this very hour. Observing the signs of the times, one can but recognize that "to those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings," as Mrs. Eddy wrote in the Preface to Science and Health (p. vii). Looking over and beyond the materialism of this hour, one sees the gradual awakening in human consciousness, and this resurrection of hope and faith is likened in this same Preface to "the first faint morning beams, ere cometh the full radiance of a risen day." Continuing, Mrs. Eddy says: "The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity. Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away. ... Though empires fall, 'the Lord shall reign forever.'"

The world is learning by experience that good and evil are irreconcilable. God is not the author of evil, therefore evil has in reality no origin and no ultimate. Jesus denounced the devil, alias evil, as "a liar, and the father of it," declaring that he "abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him." In other words, evil is no part of God or of God's creation. This denunciation placed the stigma of untruth and therefore unreality upon evil for all time. Then why try to reconcile good and evil by including them both in the one divine creation?

We recognize evil's impotence as we withhold reality and power from it. The prophet Habakkuk says of God: "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity." Then to petition God to remove that which does not exist in His sight, as we did until enlightened by a better understanding of His nature, was asking God to take cognizance of something which is not included in His perfect creation and which would deny the existence of His omnipresence and omnipotence. To dignify disease and sin by attributing their origin and existence to divine will, makes them in a sense irresistible and immutable. In Genesis we read that God made man in His own image and likeness, and made him to have dominion over all the earth. Then what of this concept of man born of the flesh, born to sin, to suffer, and to die? It is but a false belief. Let us banish it, and elevate our thought of man until we recognize his divine status.

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