Editorial March 28, 1936 Issue

God Alone Has Power

Duncan Sinclair

THE world is moving towards the goal of final victory over all evil, irresistibly moving towards that goal. We see signs of this in many directions. One sign in particular is the attitude today of the great majority of the nations of the world against war. That scourge of civilized and uncivilized peoples alike is being seen for what it is, namely, a barbarous method of gaining material advantage, prestige, and power, through ways altogether the reverse of good. And the fact is prophetic, for, perhaps sooner than many think, spiritual understanding will have come fully into its own, with the vanquishment of all evil.

The Christian Scientist has no doubt, no misgiving, on this great issue. What are the grounds for his hope, his faith, his certainty? The truths which his religion has given him. What are some of these truths? That God is infinite good; that He exists without an opposite, and, therefore, that what mortals call evil is unreal. There is never any deviation in Christian Science from these fundamental truths; and how tremendous they are in their implications! For, whenever the student knows them, whenever he in a measure realizes their significance, he sees how deluded is mankind in continuing to believe in evil, that which is altogether illusory—a lie. He sees that to believe in the reality of evil and to harbor evil thoughts, would be to arrest the operation of good in his consciousness. Mrs. Eddy states the position accurately and forcibly when she writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 228): "There is no power apart from God. Omnipotence has all-power, and to acknowledge any other power is to dishonor God."

As we realize the truth of God's allness—good's allness; as we understand from this truth that evil is unreal, we begin to break away from the erroneous traditions of men and see the end of supposititious evil. In the face of the many apparent forms which evil seems to assume, that is saying a great deal. For do not disease, sin, and death appear to be continually suggesting themselves to mortals? Notwithstanding this insistence, the Christian Scientist, with his faith and understanding firmly fixed in absolute spiritual truth, denies the reality of evil, and time and again vanquishes it in his experience.

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