Article January 20, 1934 Issue

I notice in your issue of 24th ultimo a letter in which...

John H. O'Loughlin, former Committee on Publication for Northumberland, England,

Hexham Courant

From Letters, Substantially as Published

I notice in your issue of 24th ultimo a letter in which it is implied that there is an important point in Christian Science teaching which is never explained by spokesmen of the Christian Science church. The point is substantially this: How has a sense of evil arisen, and who is responsible for it if, as Christian Science teaches, God is infinite good?

Christian Science, being based on the Bible, teaches that God is the only cause and creator, and "without him was not any thing made that was made." Hence, by fair logic, evil was never made. But, argues the carnal mind (which, the Bible states, is "enmity against God"), evil is a fact and must have a creator. Christian Science teaches that evil is a false belief which seems real only to a false consciousness, and that it can be proved unreal by having in us the true consciousness, that is, the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus."

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