Article February 8, 1930 Issue

In his "Bible Lecture" to the Mexico Women's Bible...

Oscar Graham Peeke, Committee on Publication for the State of Missouri,

Mexico Intelligencer

In his "Bible Lecture" to the Mexico Women's Bible Class, which was printed in your issue of November 7, a clergyman briefly commented on a phase of Christian Science teaching, and left the matter where anyone not a Christian Scientist would undoubtedly be misled by his remark. After affirming that sin is ever present, he states, "Christian Science seems to make evil nonexistent, an error of mortal mind." The nonexistence of evil is a fact in Christian Science. This statement, however, needs elucidation.

The Bible clearly indicates that God is All-in-all. From this premise every conclusion in Christian Science is reached. God being All, He is the only cause and creator. If, then, evil has any real existence, God must have created it, and consequently it could never be destroyed; but this is unthinkable. In the Scriptures we read, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Evil, then, can only seem real to false material sense—the carnal or mortal mind, which Paul declares is "enmity against God." To spiritualized consciousness, which knows the man created in God's own image and likeness, evil does not exist. Mrs. Eddy writes on page 207 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Because God is Spirit, evil becomes more apparent and obnoxious proportionately as we advance spiritually, until it disappears from our lives."

The belief that evil exists as a real entity is the cause of the world's woes. The scientific understanding of God's allness and of evil's consequent nonexistence, which is demonstrated in every case of Christian Science healing, is gently leading humanity "out of darkness into his marvellous light."

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