Editorial March 6, 1926 Issue

Resisting Evil

Albert F. Gilmore

The student of Christian Science learns that the source of all activity, like the source of all intelligence, is divine Mind. "Mind is the source of all movement," writes Mrs. Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 283), "and there is no inertia to retard or check its perpetual and harmonious action." All activity, then, having its source in the divine, is under the direction and government of Mind, God. It follows that the so-called mortal or carnal mind, being but an impostor or counterfeit of the real, never engages in true activity; in fact, it is inert and mindless.

The tendency of mortal mind, therefore, is toward sluggishness, and it offers many excuses for its failure to accomplish good. How often do we hear some one, even, perhaps, one who has great faith in God, recognizing an error which has not been overcome, exclaim: "Oh, well, I am leaving it to God! It is not necessary to struggle against the tide. God will take care of it in His own good time."

Such type of thought would thus excuse itself for procrastination and disinclination to array itself on the side of good. It would not struggle against the tide of adverse events, but listlessly drift with the stream, hoping to find a safe landing place somewhere below. How far is this mental state from the spirit of Paul's injunction! "Work out your own salvation"—not idle it out—was the demand of the Apostle to the Gentiles. And how are we to work out our freedom from the claims of error except as we rise in resistance to the falsities which beset us, refusing to be dominated by that which has no foundation in fact?

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