Christian Scientists will agree with your contributor in regarding evil as "an evidence of want of harmony in development," and also in his statement that "if the existence of evil is recognized, it postpones indefinitely the hope of the perfection of society," but they join issue with him in his assertion that in Christian Science is to be seen "an impudent attempt to ignore the fact of evil.
The ministry of Jesus was devoted to acquiring for himself, and so for humanity, that absolute knowledge of absolute Truth which was to make the world free.
As I sit quietly at home on Independence day, reading and otherwise enjoying my freedom, I am reminded that we as Christian Scientists have even greater cause for gratitude than we have as ordinary citizens.
The
longer I study Christian Science, and the better understanding I gain of its teachings, as found in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the more natural it seems to me.
