IN considering the question of dealing with evil through Truth, two statements of our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, stand out as beacon lights in the thought of the student of Christian Science. The first of these is to be found in her book "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 334), where she writes, "You must find error to be nothing: then, and only then, do you handle it in Science." The second statement is in her book "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 64), and reads as follows: "It is scientific to abide in conscious harmony, in health-giving, deathless Truth and Love. To do this, mortals must first open their eyes to all the illusive forms, methods, and subtlety of error, in order that the illusion, error, may be destroyed; if this is not done, mortals will become the victims of error."
From these two statements it is evident that Mrs. Eddy expected Christian Scientists to prove the nothingness of error in its every phase through a comprehensive understanding of the truth about God and man. No one realized more clearly than our Leader the necessity for proving the nothingness of error, and no one saw more certainly that the nothingness of error would never be proved merely by saying it is nothing and leaving it there, but by demonstrating the infinitude of Truth.
Christian Science has come to analyze, expose, and destroy evil of every kind. It is certain that evil would never expose, analyze, or destroy itself. Therefore, whatever helps in such a process must be of God. All that evil desires is to be left alone, so that it may continue to delude and destroy mortals. Christian Scientists, however, have accepted the joyful responsibility of demonstrating God's allness and the nothingness of evil in its every phase; in fact, wise Christian Scientists recognize that they must follow Jesus' command, "Let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay." They must therefore understand, assert, and affirm the truth about God and about man in His infinite Science, and with this spiritual understanding they must also learn to deny the suppositional activity of evil in its every subtlety.
