THE highest hopes that anyone can entertain for the final and complete triumph of good in the lives of the people, individually and collectively, are justified. Christian Science makes plain this fact and the reasons for it. And what a glorious fact it is! Harmony reigns in the realm of eternal reality—universal, complete, uninterrupted harmony. There God's beneficent law is the only law. There God's will is forever done. In that realm of eternal reality there is no sickness, no sin, no death, no parting, no pain, no discord of any sort. God is the one and only cause and creator; and He neither produces, permits, nor sanctions evil in any form. God is perfect, and His creation is perfect. God's universe and God's man are spiritual and holy, the worthy representatives of their Maker.
There is in reality no evil realm. The realm of evil is the realm of unreality. It is the realm of misconceptions, of false beliefs, false suppositions, false theories. It is the realm of superstition, the realm of ignorance. Sickness, sin, death, poverty, strife, pain, sorrow, discord, are found only in this unreal, suppositional realm.
The divine facts are all good. Ignorance of the divine facts occasions all the distress experienced by the human race. The divine facts, understood, dispel human darkness and distress and bring into experience the everlasting and universal harmony. This, Christ Jesus taught and proved. He knew the divine facts; and he came to make them known to mankind. He indicated the great need of the race when he said, "O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee." Through his understanding of God and of God's eternal, spiritual, and perfect man, Jesus healed the sick, comforted the sorrowing, reformed the sinning, raised the dead. He healed ten lepers at one time, as easily as he could move his own hand. On another occasion he touched a leper before he healed him. By that simple act Jesus indicated to the leper that the one who healed him had no fear of that disease which the race has dreaded, with extreme dread, down through the ages.
