CHRISTIAN SCIENCE teaches the absolute truth about God, divine Principle, and can therefore be depended upon. Its Discoverer and Founder, Mrs. Eddy, writes thus of it on page 329 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "There is no hypocrisy in Science. Principle is imperative. You cannot mock it by human will. Science is a divine demand, not a human. Always right, its divine Principle never repents, but maintains the claim of Truth by quenching error." Revealing the truth about God, as it does, showing Him to be infinite good, infinite Life, Truth, Love,—divine Principle,—Christian Science has no taint of error about it. We can therefore carry its message to mankind with the full conviction that sooner or later it must be accepted in its entirety.
"Principle is imperative"! There is much food for reflection in the words. Think of what they imply! They mean, as Christian Science interprets them, that God is the supreme power of the universe, that He is the only real power, and that because He is infinitely good all the seeming forces of evil must give way to His reign, and that not partially but wholly. The Christian Scientist is assured of this. He can contemplate the final destruction of all evil as readily as did the beloved John, who saw in his vision "death and hell ... cast into the lake of fire." And the Christian Scientist can do so because through his understanding of God's—good's—allness, he has discerned the unreality of evil.
Now the world to-day is apparently the scene of an incessant struggle. The forces of good are ever opposing the seeming forces of evil. Vice with its hidden head is ever, in belief, seeking to bewilder men and lure them to destruction, while the agents of good shout words of warning, point out the danger, and seek to lead the unwary back to the paths of righteousness. What a debt the world owes to its reformers! Who can ever estimate the suffering, the sorrow, the woe, they have prevented? And there is not a single one of them who could have done anything to bring about repentance and reform had not Principle been imperative, had not good been the supreme power. Whether they know it or not, all who seek the good of their fellow-men are virtually acknowledging the supremacy of God and admitting the unreality of evil. For are they not trustful—yea, oftentimes full of trust—that good will destroy evil? And how could good destroy evil if evil were real?
