The following dialogue, between a Christian Scientist and Truthseeker, is not intended to deal in an exhaustive manner with the subject, but to bring out a few of the more important points upon which Christian Scientists rest their argument for the non-existence of matter and the unreality of evil, while believing Mind to be the only Actuality, or Substance, in the universe.
The location of the dialogue is the summit of a slight elevation in the tropics, the base of which is covered with luxuriant vegetation. Stretching far to the left is the broad ocean, with its breakers plunging headlong upon the rocky coast. On the right are seen the undulating tablelands, covered with orange-groves and other tropical fruit-trees; while far away tower lofty mountain-tops, kissing the sky with their purple lips,—all uniting to form a picture calculated to lull the senses into satisfying peace, making mere existence a delight.
Truthseeker. Nature, in her peaceful moods, is beautiful; but how soon the beauty is marred, the soft mellow haze changing into a furious tornado, carrying destruction before it, and strewing its path with torture and death.
