Article November 11, 1939 Issue

Through Contest to Conquest

ANNA E. HERZOG

HUMAN life has been thought of by many as a warfare, and largely a losing one, because of the apparent power of evil, manifest as misfortune, sin, disease, and death.

Christian Science shows evil to be powerless because, in truth, there is but one power, namely, God. Since God is infinite Spirit, divine Love, eternal Mind, the one and only power is Spirit, infinite intelligence, indestructible good. But to human sense there seems to be an evil power, and the overcoming of its many dream phases, Christian Science shows us, is our present work, if we would grow to know eternal, spiritual reality.

To mankind apparently there is a contest to be waged, and a conquest to be won over many phases of error and illusion. But in real being, to the spiritual man God knows, there is no conquest, because there has not been, nor can there be, a contest.

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