CHRISTIAN SCIENCE disposes of the belief of evil through the understanding that God, good, is the only cause. In demonstrating the fact of God's allness, however, students of Christian Science do not ignore the claims of evil or deny that these claims appear to have an origin. Before Mrs. Eddy's discovery of Christian Science, physical causation was generally considered responsible for the majority of the ills of mankind, and further material investigations were pronounced necessary for their alleviation.
To-day, the world in general is changing to some extent from belief in physical to belief in mental causation; and investigations into the workings of the so-called human mind occupy thought to a much greater extent than formerly. Fear, superstition, anxiety, and worry are more generally being looked upon as cause, and sickness, sin, and death as effect. But of what benefit is it to suffering mortals to be told that their ailments have a mental rather than a physical cause, if no remedy for those mental conditions can be offered? What comfort would a victim of indigestion derive from the assurance that his suffering was the result of worry rather than of the food he ate, if he could not at the same time be assured that worry could be overcome,—in other words, that the so-called cause itself was without actual foundation?
Christian Science proves that these disturbing elements of the human mind are themselves merely suppositional effects instead of causes,—the result of beliefs without actual origin, —and that they can be eliminated by a correct understanding of the one perfect divine cause, God. Neither by ignoring the so-called mortally mental cause, nor by regarding it as natural or insurmountable, but by handling it in a Christianly scientific manner, is it proved powerless and without foundation.
