In a recent issue I read with interest an article by a...

Marcel G. Silver, Committee on Publication for France,—Paris (translation)

L'Esprit Médical

In a recent issue I read with interest an article by a professor, in which, however, Christian Science was alluded to in such terms as to give an inexact concept of it to the reader. Christian Science does not ask us merely to believe in the unreality of evil. It asks us to understand that evil is nothing. Now the gaining of this understanding is not a matter of a moment. Such understanding is one with the understanding of divine power, of its essential allness and goodness, and of its indisputable sovereignty—understanding which is available to all, though everyone must seek it with perseverance. This individual effort Christian Science encourages and helps. It does more: it requires it from us as our necessary service.

The knowledge of God unmasks the suggestive nature of evil, and we perceive that which gives to evil the appearance of reality is chiefly the assent to its suggestion. But the Biblical admonition and promise, "Resist the devil, and he will flee from you," becomes practical and more and more demonstrable as our discernment of the strictly spiritual truth of being allows us to gain dominion over erroneous suggestions. One needs undoubtedly a spiritual energy, which can be imparted only by the certitude of being in unity with God, to overcome and reverse material evidences always testifying falsely.

It is that spiritual energy—courageous and generous—which Christian Scientists revere in Mary Baker Eddy. In the face of accumulated evidences of earthly ills, she discovered the Science which annuls them all, the Science which she defined in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 1), as "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony," and which she named "Christian Science."

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