Article January 15, 1938 Issue

In his letter published in your issue of May 21 last, a...

Raymond N. Harley, Committee on Publication for Transvaal, South Africa,

Benoni City Times

In his letter published in your issue of May 21 last, a clergyman suggests that your report of a Christian Science lecture given at Benoni carries a willful misstatement—by the lecturer, I take it.

The alleged misstatement is comprised in the following passage: "The orthodox conception of God accepts both good and evil as emanating from God." The clergyman declares that the Anglican, as one of the orthodox churches, does not accept the view of "both good and evil as emanating from God," and follows up his declaration with the statement, "All orthodox Christians are realists enough to know by their own experience, of the evil," thus justifying the lecturer's claim.

If God is the primal and sole creator of all that is real, then, logically, if evil is real, it was created by Him, and, if He is infinite Mind, evil is one of His attributes, and as such ineradicable.

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