Article October 5, 1935 Issue

Finding Evil to be Nothing

ALBERT M. CHENEY

On page 334 of her "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, after asking a question, gives an answer the understanding of which is of vital importance to every student of Christian Science. She asks, "Why do Christian Scientists treat disease as disease, since there is no disease?" Her illuminating answer is, in part: "This is done only as one gives the lie to a lie; because it is a lie, without one word of Truth in it. You must find error to be nothing: then, and only then, do you handle it in Science." It will be noticed that she does not say perhaps you will find error to be nothing, or, there is a possibility that error will be found as nothing, but the statement is virtually a command, "You must find error to be nothing."

The position taken by our Leader is well founded, for Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, the best Christian and the most successful healer ever known, taught, lived, and demonstrated the identical truth which today is revealed in Christian Science; and one of the outstanding accomplishments of this Science is the continual proof that because of the allness of God, good, evil is nothing.

God is All-in-all. He is the only creator, the only cause or source. In God, Mind, is to be found the origin of all that really exists. He made all and governs all, and according to the Bible, He saw His entire creation as "very good." Thus we see that the whole spiritual universe, and all things therein, were made by God, known to God, and pronounced by Him to be absolutely good. Because of this great and eternal fact, there was never a necessity for or reality in a different or second creation. Because God is infinite in power, in wisdom, and in harmony, and because His work represents Him, God is, and forever has been, satisfied with His work. God never created another creator, nor did He delegate to anything the power, wisdom, or law to produce a creation, either good or bad. He never neglected or abandoned His universe, never sanctioned or permitted anything to separate His creation from Him, or to render that creation in the slightest degree imperfect. The inevitable conclusion to be reached is that in the perfection of God, and the real universe, there is no evil of any name or nature.

Send a comment to the editors

We'd love to hear from you!

Easily submit your testimonies, articles, and poems online.

Submit

Finding Evil to be Nothing

We'd love to hear from you!

Sign up for unlimited access