CHRISTIAN SCIENCE is based upon the fact that God, good, is infinite; that He is the one and only Mind, power, cause, including all effect—indeed, that God, divine Principle, is All-in-all. "All things were made by him; and without him was not any 'thing made that was made," as the Apostle John declared. Evil does not exist as reality, because it has no creator; neither has it any real law to support it. And having no cause, it can have no effect. Evil is not a place, a person, or a thing. It does not operate, therefore, through or in man or the universe. Evil, which claims to exist in human consciousness through fear, lack, disease, pain, sin, grief, old age, disaster, is what Jesus termed it, "a liar, and the father of it."
Although evil claims reality, this need not disturb us. Because to material vision the earth may appear flat, we do not fear the possibility of falling over its edge, since we know that here the material evidence is erroneous. Neither should the Christian Scientist be afraid of any other material evidence, despite its seeming reality, because he knows that whatever is not good is not of God, and is therefore a deception. God's love and tender care are always with us, notwithstanding evil's testimony to the contrary. Mrs. Eddy has written in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 563): "We may well be perplexed at human fear; and still more astounded at hatred, which lifts its hydra head, showing its horns in the many inventions of evil. But why should we stand aghast at nothingness?"
Truth is unconcerned with the clamor of the lie of material sense, the nature of the lie, or the number of those seemingly deceived by it. To Truth a lie is always a lie;, it has no foundation in fact, and its seeming effect is in proportion to one's belief in its reality. When evil claims existence, the Christian Scientist should immediately turn his thought to God, who is the divine Principle of man, the divine cause from which proceeds all effect. Asserting his freedom as God's child, claiming his goodly heritage and accepting God's bountiful gifts and loving care, the student knows that Truth must be victorious in his problems.
