Editorial November 8, 1958 Issue

THE POWERLESSNESS OF EVIL

Helen Wood Bauman

The Bible plainly teaches that power belongs to God, not to evil and not to matter. The Psalmist gives us the benefit of his spiritual listening when he says (Ps. 62:11), "God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God."

Evil's most insistent claim is that it has power to defy God, to reverse the order of His universe, to produce matter, mortals, sin, sickness, death—the opposite of what God creates. But Christian Science restores the understanding of power as God's prerogative, and the Scientist's purpose is to prove the utter powerlessness of the so-called mortal mind.

Mary Baker Eddy writes in "No and Yes" (p. 42), "All power belongs to God; and it is not in all the vain power of dogma and philosophy to dispossess the divine Mind of healing power, or to cast out error with error, even in the name and for the sake of Christ, and so heal the sick."

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