Editorial June 21, 1930 Issue

"Light in the darkness"

Duncan Sinclair

How often in our human experiences we are called upon to make decisions! In some occupations, indeed, this is constantly having to be done. And the one who is able to make decisions which are nearest right in any particular business is he who knows that business best. But situations often arise where it is difficult to determine what should be done. The way is obscure; doubts and fears fill the thought; and we seem to be enveloped in darkness. It is then we turn to God, the source of all intelligence, for help; and if we do so in the right way we are certain to receive His guidance. "Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness," runs a sentence in the fourth verse of the one hundred and twelfth psalm; and in the seventh verse these words occur: "His [a good man's] heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord."

In the realm of the real there is never darkness or doubt; all is light there, the light of infinite Mind, infinite intelligence. This is the teaching of absolute Christian Science. God, divine Mind, is the one perfect intelligence; and He is without an opposite. Hence, in reality there is no evil intelligence. And since evil is unreal, in true being there is no inharmony. God's kingdom is absolutely harmonious because it is the expression of Himself. As this is understood, it becomes plain that although mortals seem to be conscious of good and evil, harmony and inharmony, in reality only that which is good and harmonious is true.

Material sense, then, is false, the sense which suggests to mortals that matter is real, that evil in its various forms, including disease, is real. Mrs. Eddy exemplifies this on page 6 of "No and Yes" when she writes, "The evidence that the earth is motionless and the sun revolves around our planet, is as sensible and real as the evidence for disease; but Science determines the evidence in both cases to be unreal." Disease is unreal; and we are assured that it is unreal because infinite and perfect Mind could not create anything unlike Himself.

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