A FACT of tremendous importance which Mrs. Eddy has given to the world in the revelation of Christian Science is that God is infinite good. Goodness, then, is a permanent quality or attribute of God; and God and good are inseparable. On page 286 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy states, "In the Saxon and twenty other tongues good is the term for God." Then it follows that God's creation, as it is stated in Genesis, must be "very good." This reasoning makes doubly cogent a saying of Christ Jesus, who, when addressed as "Good Master," replied, "Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." Here is full justification of our Leader's statement that God is inherently good; and it follows that since God's creation must partake of His quality, all is in reality good. Good is ever present and nothing unlike good is or can be.
If mortals understood this, they would be less inclined to hold to the belief in evil, whereby they seem to separate themselves from man's divine source. How important it becomes, then, to hold to good; to make it the rule and order of one's life. To know good and to do good is mortals' only means of progress; for without good, no gain can be made Spiritward. So necessary is it to hold good in thought, to live it and to trust it, that our Leader writes on page 192 of Science and Health: "The good you do and embody gives you the only power obtainable. Evil is not power. It is a mockery of strength, which erelong betrays its weakness and falls, never to rise."
How to know good and to do it is mankind's great need. The age-old strife between good and the belief of evil still goes on, and it will continue to go on so long as mortals give to evil a semblance of reality. But evil's seeming power is destroyed through knowing that good only has power.
