Editorial May 9, 1970 Issue

"The awful unreality"

Helen Wood Bauman

The association of two words not generally related is sometimes startling to say the least. And so it is with the words "awful unreality" used a number of times by Mary Baker Eddy in explaining her scientific uncovering of the nature of evil. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures she speaks of the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of Spirit, and she says, "These eternal verities reveal primeval existence as the radiant reality of God's creation, in which all that He has made is pronounced by His wisdom good." Then she explains, "Thus it was that I beheld, as never before, the awful unreality called evil."^{Science and Health, p. 110;}

In uncovering the nature of evil, Christian Science makes it possible for people to get rid of it, both as a spurious activity of their own present human selfhood and as an external force that might claim to influence and even harm them.

Mrs. Eddy's explanation of evil as unreal—an imposition, an illusion, a supposition, having no Principle and no actual law—is deeply scientific. And her method of dealing with evil in this light has been proved effective in countless instances when through that method healings of sin and sickness have taken place. Nothing is more convincing than proof.

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