Editorial August 6, 1927 Issue

"Harmony is universal"

Duncan Sinclair

With the understanding she possessed of divine Science, Mrs. Eddy was able to illumine the Scriptures in a wonderful manner. For instance, she takes a sentence from the fourth chapter of Deuteronomy and straightway, and in a very few words, draws from it spiritual truth of the greatest importance. "The Scripture declares," she writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 414), "'The Lord He is God [good]; there is none else beside Him.'" Then she concludes, "Even so, harmony is universal, and discord is unreal."

The conclusion which Mrs. Eddy draws from the fact that "there is none else beside Him," God, good,—namely, that "harmony is universal, and discord is unreal,"—cannot be denied. But material sense would continually argue to the contrary, that harmony is not universal and that discord at times is very real. Accordingly, the so-called human mind finds itself in a serious dilemma; and in that dilemma it remains until Christian Science comes to the rescue.

Now Christian Science, as elucidated by Mrs. Eddy, its Discoverer and Founder, takes for granted that God is infinite good, maintaining that upon no other premise can a right solution of the problem of existence be gained. And once this premise is accepted, the conclusions which logically follow are without doubt of the most revolutionary nature, in so far as they are brought to bear on human ways of thinking. When, for example, it is admitted that God, good, is infinite, it must be conceded that evil is unreal. What does this signify, more particularly? That sin, disease, sorrow, suffering, death—every phase or form of evil—have no real existence, or, in other words, no reality. And when this is seen, how plain do the inspired words of Habakkuk become: "Thou [God] art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity."

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