Article September 22, 1934 Issue

God Does Not See Evil

[Written Especially for Children]

CLAIRE MOORE

Nancy was a little girl who was going to a Christian Science Sunday School for the first time, and there was one thing especially she could not seem to understand—that God does not see evil. Nancy knew that Christian Science heals, because her mother, who had been an invalid for a long time, had been made well and happy through Christian Science.

But before her mother had learned of Christian Science Nancy had been told that God saw her every act and that He punished her for doing wrong. But now, in the Christian Science Sunday School, her teacher told her that God loves children and does not punish them, that He never saw her doing wrong or being sick, but that through His great love for her she was healed of both naughtiness and sickness. How, she wondered, could God make her good and well without knowing of her troubles? Lovingly her teacher read to her the verse from Habakkuk, "Thou [God] art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity." The teacher also read Mrs. Eddy's words from "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 476, 477): "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him where sinning mortal man appears to mortals. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick."

Nancy was told, also, that it was impossible for the child of God's creating to be sick or sinful, and that God sees only the real child, for in reality sickness and sin do not exist.

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