The newspapers of today, together with the radio and television, report from time to time the frequency of storms and threatened hurricanes. Such reports oft-times foretell pending disasters, and the people become fearful.
In Christian Science we learn that God has made everything and that "without him was not any thing made that was made" (John 1:3). Since God is good, and is "of purer eyes than to behold evil" (Hab. 1:13), there cannot be anything apart from Him and His perfect expression, or creation. Thus, there is no power, substance, or reality in evil of whatever name or nature.
It was fear in the disciples' thought that caused them to awaken their Master during a storm at sea. When Jesus became aware of their state of terror, he said to them (Matt. 8:26), "Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?" The Bible account continues, "Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm." Just what did the Master understand about this phenomenon, a tempest, which the disciples did not? Did he not know that God is the author of all that is good and that all evil is a falsity, an illusion of material sense or mortal mind?
