Editorial September 12, 1953 Issue

IMPERSONALIZE EVIL AND CHERISH GOOD

Robert Ellis Key

We learn in Christian Science to give no reality to evil in thought or action. If consciously we concede life to evil, if we assume it has intelligence, if we believe it to be substantial, then we are giving it power, presence, and perpetuity.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 102): "Mankind must learn that evil is not power. Its so-called despotism is but a phase of nothingness." The unreality of evil is a fact to be learned step by step. The demands of this hour make it imperative that we take every opportunity to realize that evil is a nonentity and that good is all.

In the Scriptures evil is typified by a serpent, subtle and sinuous in its movements, devious and crooked in its reasoning, and destructive in its intentions. It is doubtful if a better simile could have been chosen to represent evil. Mrs. Eddy writes (No and Yes, p. 42), "The lie of evil holds its own by declaring itself both true and good." In view of this statement, let us refuse to accept evil at its own estimate either to be feared or to be desired. Evil must be belittled and starved by our refusal to support its claims.

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