Editorial January 14, 1928 Issue

No Curse on Man

Duncan Sinclair

Looked upon superficially, viewed, that is, through the lens of the physical senses, existence has appeared to many as if it were under a curse. For to what do these senses testify? All manner of sin; all manner of suffering. Indeed, it would seem to be the lot of every mortal to experience a measure of distress in the form of sickness and sorrow; and no mortal can say that he is not prone to believe in the reality of evil. Looking upon existence in this way, men have often felt constrained to believe that, actually, there was a curse upon man.

Christian Science has come to take away the false sense of curse. How does it propose to do this? By getting at the facts of creation; by taking us back to absolute spiritual Truth, and showing us how to distinguish between reality and unreality. Nothing greater has ever been attempted by either religion, philosophy, or science. How true it is that in many instances the efforts of men after enlightenment have but helped to bind them more firmly to belief in the inevitability of disaster! For, assuming matter and evil to be real, assuming the testimony of material sense to be true, no conclusion can be reached other than that material existence, with all its sin, disease, sorrow, and suffering, is also real.

Now Christian Scientists approach this important question equipped with the understanding of the greatest of all spiritual truths, namely, the allness of God as good. God is infinite good, Christian Science maintains, in spite of what material sense may say to the contrary. Let us ponder the words—God is infinite good! Are they true, or are they only partially so? Christian Science declares that they mean exactly what they say; that they are absolutely true. And Christian Science boldly tells mankind that this absolute truth must be accepted and become the very marrow of its thinking, in order that the false belief of a curse on the human race may be disannulled. For what does the great truth of God's —good's—allness imply? The utter nothingness of evil in all its seeming forms.

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