Article January 1, 1927 Issue

Signs of the Times

GUY F. WRIGHT

We sometimes hear to-day about a so-called crime wave, and how the young people especially are being influenced and attracted by many forms of evil. The ordinary newspaper and many of the current magazines contain articles on the subject. If one were to accept the evidence presented as true, in the absolute sense, the present situation would seem well-nigh hopeless. How should we as Christian Scientists conduct ourselves in regard to this problem? Are we to believe the lies of mortal mind, and fear a so-called power of evil? Or should we not, rather, see in all this a sign of the times, and realize the great fact that Truth is uncovering error only to destroy it?

Our dear Leader, Mrs. Eddy, foresaw this uncovering; for she says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 97), "The higher Truth lifts her voice, the louder will error scream, until its inarticulate sound is forever silenced in oblivion." Error is screaming for recognition as something real. Are we seeing it as a great and powerful reality that may engulf the whole of humanity in some terrible catastrophe, or are we realizing and demonstrating the utter nothingness of its claims?

We know by what we have demonstrated of Christian Science that evil is unreal. We have proved this, individually and collectively, to such a marked degree that we should have no doubt as to the truth of it. Every healing that has ever taken place in Christian Science has been accomplished on the basis of God's allness and the consequent nothingness of evil. We know that there is in reality neither greater nor lesser evil.

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