THE "Sundial" column in The Christian Science Monitor, with its familiar caption, "I Record only the Sunny Hours," is endearing itself to the hearts of many of its readers by revealing to them many sunlit pages of human life in unlooked-for places. Incidents of kindness to the aged, the forlorn, and other of earth's needy ones, stories of noble service in humble places, self-effacing heroism which asks no reward, spontaneous goodness which rejoices the heart, treasures of unselfishness from an almost forgotten past—long and beautiful grows the record, once mankind begins to turn from the conviction that all is dark and hopeless and begins to take account of the sunny hours.
Sometimes, when confronted by these examples of unselfish conduct, mankind will say, "Yes, these things are fine, and we like to hear of them, but they are exceptional; they happen but seldom, and we really cannot expect them in our daily lives." Perhaps such expressions as "too good to be true" and "too good to last" may be used to describe them. Now such statements are based on the almost universal belief in the presence and power of evil as real. According to this false and dismal philosophy, evil is the rule and good the exception; evil is permanent and good temporary.
To a world burdened with the doleful belief that all good is too good to be expected, the gospel, or good news, of Christian Science comes with the cheering and uplifting assurance that there is but one creator, God; that He made all that was made, as the Bible declares; that He is good; and consequently that all that He made must also be good. Evil, thus, can have no creator, and therefore no real existence; it is not, therefore, to be expected or feared, but is to be known as nothing, and so overcome and destroyed. Christian Science shows that sin, sickness, want, and woe are illusions, dreams, vagaries of an unreal so-called mind which knows not God.
