Article August 11, 1951 Issue

"EVIL OBSOLETE"

CAROLYN DE SHON LYONS

One day a Christian Scientist was struggling with fear because her two children were sick. They had been having help from a Christian Science practitioner, but there was still much disturbance in their mother's thought to be overcome. She tried to read the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, but the words meant nothing to her. Finally she telephoned the practitioner again, telling her the condition was discouraging and asking for more help. Soon the mother felt completely at peace and was able to pick up Science and Health and read with understanding and inspiration.

As she read, a marginal heading on page 330 struck her—"Evil obsolete." A few days before, she had seen a picture of a washing machine made in 1900, and it was such a complicated contraption, so obviously obsolete, that she had laughed. That picture now returned to her, and she had a glimpse of evil being as utterly out-of-date to one instructed by Science as that washing machine made fifty years ago. She saw that with the coming of Christian Science, sickness and all other discord in her experience had been completely outmoded.

She thought of other things that are obsolete, including old customs and old words which have fallen into disuse. Should someone attempt to interject these customs or words into our present way of living, we would immediately cast them aside as useless. Why, then, should we accept evil in any form, when Christian Science has daily proved to us that it is obsolete? As the truths contained in this line of reasoning were accepted by the mother, one of the children was healed almost immediately. The healing of the other soon followed.

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