In a world which most Christian people believe to have been created by a just and good God, it is anomalous that so many millions of its inhabitants should be in a constant state of lack—lack of health, lack of profitable employment, lack of adequate means for normal subsistence. Many there are who believe that God knows and permits these conditions, and that no one can be quite sure, while inhabiting this earth, of being immune from one or more of them. Both beliefs are fallacious.
God is the creator of the spiritual universe, including man, and His entire creation He pronounced good, "very good." Reasoning from this premise we can see that there can be nothing of an evil nature in God's all-good creation. Evil, therefore, can have only a supposititious existence. Suffering and want are evil conditions; God could not be cognizant of them, for He is "of purer eyes than to behold evil," as is stated by the prophet Habakkuk. Evil conditions, of whatever nature, are apparent in human experience only because of false concepts of God and of His perfect creation. Happily, however, such concepts are steadily decreasing. The demonstrable teachings of Christian Science, which are based on the true understanding of God, are awakening mankind to the illusive and delusive character of all that is not in accord with His perfect creation.
The Bible contains the recipe for the overcoming of all wrong conditions, and it should be the guide of every Christian's life. The earnest Christian Scientist strives to order his life by its teachings. Indeed, the first of the six religious Tenets in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, reads as follows (p. 497): "As adherents of Truth, we take the inspired Word of the Bible as our sufficient guide to eternal Life." All who do this, and who understandingly follow the teachings of the prophets and apostles, and in particular those of Christ Jesus, make of their lives a real success.
