Article April 21, 1928 Issue

The Allness of God, Good

JAMES AYLING

From earliest Bible times, all down the ages, poor suffering humanity has been prone to accept it as fact that good and evil are equally real in power and presence. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," on page 330, Mrs. Eddy writes: "The notion that both evil and good are real is a delusion of material sense, which Science annihilates. Evil is nothing, no thing, mind, nor power." And she further writes (ibid., p. 468): "There is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter. All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all."

As one steadfastly holds in thought, and realizes, the fact that God is All-in-all, and that evil is a negation,—nothing,—one cannot fail to experience Christian Science healing, whether of a chronic, hereditary, functional, or organic disease, of an accident, or of broken bones. All who are able to accept the statements of truth of Mrs. Eddy may begin at once to understand and demonstrate the allness of good and the nothingness of evil, with its attendant sin, sickness, suffering, and lack. Spiritual understanding lifts thought into the realm of divine Mind, where matter and evil have neither place nor power; for the "accuser" is not there, and nothing entereth that "worketh abomination, or maketh a lie."

In this blessed state of spiritual consciousness one experiences a mental peace beyond human understanding, realizing the presence of the loving Father-Mother God. Although one seems to see all around the manifestations of evil,—sin, sickness, poverty, strife, which appear to have an origin and to be real,—they are but dreams, mortal illusions, since God is All-in-all, and in reality there is no power or presence other than good. Reality being good, the opposite of good—evil—must be unreal. This scientific reasoning answers the oft-repeated question of mankind, What is the origin of evil?

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