Article December 16, 1939 Issue

Writing under the caption, "Scientists Among the...

William Carson Blackburn, Committee on Publication for the state of North Carolina,—Charlotte

Observer

Writing under the caption, "Scientists Among the Mysteries," in your paper, a correspondent has stated in substance that blundering amid the profound mysteries of the day, scientists are going to run into the face of the devil, and adds further, "If there's a God there is a devil, too."

Now the very first verse in the Bible, that great textbook of all Christians, refers to God as creator, and the concluding verse in this opening chapter states, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." The Apostle John also tells us, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."

Other Scriptural quotations could be cited referring to God as the Almighty and as filling "heaven and earth." Since God is Spirit, and infinite, it is right to assume that He could not, and would not, create evil (devil) as an opposing entity to Himself; for as the prophet Habakkuk reasons, He is "of purer eyes than to behold evil," and cannot "look on iniquity." Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says on page 372 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Christian Science and Christianity are one. How, then, in Christianity any more than in Christian Science, can we believe in the reality and power of both Truth and error, Spirit and matter, and hope to succeed with contraries?"

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