IN Christian Science there is presented to humanity a radically new solution of the problem of evil. This solution may appear at first startling in its undeviating absoluteness of premise and conclusion, but to spiritual reasoning its logic is unanswerable. It is this—that if we accept Spirit, God, as the only cause and creator, then the nothingness of evil becomes self-evident.
As soon as this great fact is acknowledged by the student and made the basis for right reasoning, he finds himself instructed and enlightened, in every forward step he takes, by the wisdom and inspiration of his two textbooks, the Bible and "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. He quickly learns how contrary to all accepted methods, whether religious, scientific, or philosophic, is this discovery of the Science of Christianity, which concedes not one jot to conservatism or convention, which marches forward under Truth's banner, acknowledging no authority and no evidence except those of divine origin. Unequivocal in its thesis, it maintains in the face of agelong tradition, and of accepted sense testimony, that only to God's allness belongs the designation of reality. Herein alone can the inherent nothingness of every form of evil be established in human consciousness, whereby the fear and the love of sin are finally destroyed. With this key Christian Science opens for us the Scriptures, and leads us into a new land, where we see the man of God's creating, the man whom Christ Jesus came to reveal.
To abandon the methods hitherto adopted, in all ages—repudiated by none except the Master and his immediate followers—of either fighting or submitting to evil, and to learn through the revelation of God's allness that that which opposes Him is not power, this is the teaching of Christian Science. He who accepts the letter and spirit of this divine message has begun to cut the very ground away from under his fear of and belief in evil, and with intelligent assurance to break its seeming cause.
