Editorial January 27, 1945 Issue

Evil Never Identified with Man

Paul Stark Seeley

A most helpful statement in combating and destroying sin and sickness is made by Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 71) where she says: "Evil has no reality. It is neither person, place, nor thing, but is simply a belief, an illusion of material sense."

The argument of sin or sickness always contradicts this. It says it is the very person of you or me, is amalgamated with us; that we enjoy sin, and suffer from sickness. Furthermore, it says that sickness is definitely placed in the head, heart, stomach, lungs, glands, limbs, eyes, ears, or somewhere else. Then it says it certainly is some thing, for it has a name which gives it prestige and helps mortals to discuss and appraise its afflictive qualities.

Mrs. Eddy saw clearly why evil "is neither person, place, nor thing," and she wished to help you and me to see this. Her discovery of the Science of Christianity, which based all the works of Christ Jesus, brings to light that man is not a physical body. The real man, she realized, is not material and temporary, but wholly spiritual; that is, of the permanent substance of Mind, the individual idea of Mind, living for the rational purpose of evidencing this Mind in thought, word, and act.

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