Article April 21, 1934 Issue

Real Life

BEATRICE DE F. BARTLE

Human existence is comprised of limitations; for limited, changeable, and unstable conditions characterize all things mortal. How different was the life Christ Jesus taught and lived! His entire ministry was directed to freeing mankind from the enslaving dream of material sense; from the bondage of sin and sickness, failure and unhappiness, and the countless ills of everyday human experience.

He did this by proving conclusively that God is good, and that good is all. This was the premise of his every thought and act. He knew that both good and evil could not be real, because the only valid law is God's law of goodness and spirituality. As we recognize that the seeming power of sin and disease is wholly of false mental procurement existing merely as a mistaken belief, and gain the understanding of God as the only Life, we too are equipped with the spiritual dominion which is our natural heritage. This great truth of the ever present, unchanging infinity of good, and therefore of the unreality of evil, sets us free from the fear of evil, and gives us a working understanding by which we can overcome and destroy its seeming reality.

When evil or error of any nature knocks at the door of our consciousness, it is in our power to refuse it admission. It may come to us in the form of sickness, sin, resentment, jealousy, unkindness, temper. But no matter how it presents itself, if we accept it we are admitting reality in that which is a lie, a falsity, and in so doing we are ascribing to it the only power and life it can even seem to have. Evil, having no divine origin, manifests itself as sin, disease, or other discord only through gaining acceptance in human belief. How encouraging are these words in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy (p. 393): "Rise in the strength of Spirit to resist all that is unlike good. God has made man capable of this, and nothing can vitiate the ability and power divinely bestowed on man"!

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