Article February 22, 1941 Issue

In a recent issue of your newspaper there appeared an...

Austin E. Page, Committee on Publication for the State of New Hampshire,—Exeter

News-Letter,

In a recent issue of your newspaper there appeared an intersting and thought-provoking article entitled "It Could Be Done." The writer points out that there are "almost unlimited forces for good, that are not being used," and he makes a strong plea for real leadership in organizing and utilizing these forces to bring about a better way of life.

He makes a friendly reference to Christian Scientists as setting a good example by minimizing evil in their conversation, and he commends the attitude which causes them to refrain from continually talking about poor health. At the same time, he thinks it possible that they go "too far" in denying the reality of evil.

Christian Science denies the reality of evil on the basis that it is not God-created. If God made evil, it is a part of His creation and is thus real and enduring. It could thus never be destroyed, and it would be useless and wicked to oppose it, because to do so would be to oppose God's plan. But Christian Science declares that God is wholly and entirely good, and that consequently His creation must follow the pattern of good. It points to this Scripture: "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." It further maintains that God made all, basing this claim on Scriptural passages, such as the third verse of the first chapter of St. John's Gospel, "All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." It thus declares that since God made all and made it good, evil must be and is unreal.

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