A Thought of reversion comes to me so forcibly in these four words; take a card, write on it the words "live" and "lived;" hold it before a mirror, and the reflection you see in it reads "evil" and "devil." Does it not seem a strange coincidence that "live" should spell "evil" backwards? In the one we have the real, in the other the unreal. It comes to me like working out a problem on a scientific basis or principle—why evil can't live. "Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly coincident with the ruling principles of a virtuous man."
The idea of a personal devil as the opponent of God has long prevailed in the human mind and God was a composite idea of personality before which they bowed. Evil is the opposite of Good, or the suppositional absence of Good. All the loving Father makes is good; and nothing else has power.
In the June issue of the Journal are found these words: "To our appreciation no wiser words were ever spoken than those of our Teacher: 'All human action is a choice between the lesser of two evils.' In mortal sense we are walking on shifting sands; the panorama of this apparent life is like that offered by a cloudy sky, with no more permanence or durability. Our work—our only work—is to establish and maintain the sense of the reality of Being."
