Article July 3, 1920 Issue

Good Real

ROBERT W. JAMES

TO learn that evil is not real but that God is omnipotent and omnipresent rejoices ourselves and our fellow children of Israel. The most important thing to learn about evil is its unreality. God's law does not result in any least disaster—physical, moral, mental—of government, of interpretation, or of association. As Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health, "Inasmuch as God is good and the fount of all being, He does not produce moral or physical deformity; therefore such deformity is not real, but is illusion, the mirage of error." It has not really occurred, and nothing of the kind can seem real to the consciousness which knows God to be omnipresent and omnipotent.

In Science the harmony of Truth is manifest as right conditions; the freedom of Soul, in true morality; the goodness of God, in all action; the divine Science of Mind, in all interpretation. Since, as Mrs. Eddy says on page 124 of Science and Health, "adhesion, cohesion, and attraction are properties of Mind," the government of Love is evident in all scientific association with Principle. These qualities or effects of the everlasting God are forever infinite, having no opposites. Thus the condition in which the harmony of Truth is manifest is infinite; the morality of Soul is unbounded; the reflection of God is omnipresent; all right association is eternally intact, because the infinite, divine idea of association is necessarily fulfilled.

Jesus said, "Have faith in God." Our faith in God is indeed the substance of things hoped for; but so-called faith in evil is the substance of things not hoped for—sorrow, sickness, sin. All the spiritual facts, the total of which constitutes true health, are included in man. Health thus constituted is a great reality which must be consciously possessed by every individual man, in order that the Christ shall perfectly redeem him from sickness and sin. Thus it is seen that not belief but conscious demonstration is "the way."

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