Article September 4, 1943 Issue

Good Is Native to Man

ALINE POWERS FISHER

In summing up his life's observations, a contemporary playwright, well known for his delineation of worldly characters, makes this comment: "Goodness is the only value that seems in this world of appearances to have any claim to be an end in itself."

To have reached such a conclusion is perfectly natural to the student of Christian Science, who early learns that there is but one Mind, and that that Mind is God, changeless good, divine Principle, Love. He learns, too, that this flawless Mind's oneness includes its infinite allness, and thereby excludes all belief in evil as real. Writing on this subject with conviction born of demonstration, our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, asserts in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 470): "Divine Science explains the abstract statement that there is one Mind by the following self-evident proposition: If God, or good, is real, then evil, the unlikeness of God, is unreal. And evil can only seem to be real by giving reality to the unreal."

Reasoning from this standpoint, one readily discerns that good is not intermittent. It is not momentary, transitory, or capricious. On the contrary, good is continuous and uninterrupted. It is God's will in operation. It is Mind's expression of its own perfection. It is Love identifying man's real selfhood.

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