Editorial December 12, 1925 Issue

"As for God, his way is perfect"

Duncan Sinclair

"As for God, his way is perfect." These words of the Psalmist bring to recollection the fact that Christian Science is doing more than any other system of thought in the world to-day to enlighten men on the perfection of God. For that is what Christian Science does when it declares, throughout every one of Mrs. Eddy's books and the authorized Christian Science periodicals, that God is infinite good, and that evil (so called) is unreal. No religious or philosophical system exists except Christian Science which maintains that God is perfect or infinite good, and at the same time teaches the illusory nature of evil. Accordingly, outside of Christian Science there is no absolutely scientific method whereby evil, so called, can be destroyed in human consciousness.

What a thought, that God is perfect! But how lightly it is apt to pass through consciousness—almost heedlessly sometimes; and what a loss mankind experiences by its neglect of one of the greatest, most fundamental of all spiritual truths! Dwelling in belief in matter, with all its seeming imperfections; believing in the reality of evil, with all its accompanying afflictions of sin and disease, the ignorance of mortals screens them off, as it were, from Truth, and they inevitably reap the reward of their ignorance.

It is a strange tendency of mortals often to seem to prefer to remain in ignorance of the truths of divine Being. It many times happens that these truths are presented to them in the simplest fashion and with perfect logic, only to be unheeded and rejected. This simply means that the truth is being opposed, in belief, by so-called mortal mind, that supposititious mentality which claims to be wherever divine Mind is—everywhere. It is well to be clear as to what opposition to Truth really means; for in reality Truth cannot be opposed, since God is Truth and God is All. So-called opposition to Truth is simply a lie of mortal mind, nothing claiming to be something.

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