Readers of the Journal sometimes ask why we do not invite eminent writers of other denominations to contribute to the columns of our monthly.
Conservative and Liberal churches, all will admit, are based upon Belief in the reality and might of evil. But the Church of Christ (Scientist) is based upon Understanding the unreality and powerlessness of evil. Broad line of demarcation, making the sayings of the wisest and most learned of those leaders never in pure accord with the Scientists' teachings, and therefore not the meat their hardier mental systems assimilate.
Through the steps of the denial of evil in any form, whether as sin, or grief, or sickness, or defeat, or death, up the heights to affirmation of the omnipresence of Good, is the Scientist's growth to perfect health of body and mind. Upon that ground battling, his strength is unfailing, and the pitiful whine of the pleading defeated acknowledgment of the "awful power of the Devil," is poor re-enforcement for him in these days of conflict.
