Editorial May 8, 1926 Issue

On the Overcoming of Evil

Albert F. Gilmore

Christian Scientists are awake to the necessity of constantly being on guard against the attempted encroachments of evil; they know the need of keeping their mental gates closed against the common enemy. The evil belief which is given no standing, and no degree of credibility, never gives one work to do in destroying it for one's self, although one may be called upon to unsee it for another. Once admitted into consciousness, evil assumes some aspect of reality, and its banishment may require persistent knowing of the truth. The Apostle James, recognizing this, declared, "Resist the devil [evil], and he will flee from you."

The overcoming of belief in evil is mankind's greatest problem; and Christian Science alone furnishes the effective means of its solution. Freedom from evil is won only through the scientific destruction of evil. Moreover, salvation is compulsory and inevitable, and must be won by each individual for himself. Man's perfection must be revealed, and thus brought into realization. Delay in the process but adds to the seeming difficulties of the situation. To continue to sleep in the material sense of selfhood never will lead us to the goal of spiritual freedom; for, at best, the sense-pleasures to which we would cling are temporary and unworthy. Let us awaken from the mesmerism of the material beliefs, which are dead to all recognition of spiritual Truth, and receive the Christ-message of life and love which is awaiting every mortal. How tragic it seems that God's wondrous glory is awaiting all, is to be had for the asking, and yet is shared by so few! It was the poet Lowell who said,

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