Students of Christian Science are learning through the teaching of Mary Baker Eddy that there is a sure and living way out of human want and woe. This way is the Christ-way. It is the way exemplified by Christ Jesus, who revealed the unvarying goodness of Him whose law operates only to free mankind from bondage to the supposed presence and power of evil. The Psalmist sang, "Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them."
Referring to the allness of God, good, and the consequent unreality, or nothingness, of evil, Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 339): "Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness. God, Spirit, alone created all, and called it good. Therefore evil, being contrary to good, is unreal, and cannot be the product of God."To demonstrate this truth progressively is the aspiration of all Christian Scientists, and the Christian Science textbook shows us how to do this.
To deny, in a materialistic age, the supposed reality of evil and to insist that all discord is nothing more or less than the outpicturing of material-mindedness is a challenge to what is called the world's common sense. Instinctively, the so-called mortal mind rejects the logical assertion that there can be no presence and power besides the divine All-presence and All-power. It derides the announcement that matter, whether claiming to be good or bad, sick or well, is an age-old mental delusion. To common sense nothing is more obvious than that God at least permits the presence and power of evil. Nevertheless, what says the Scripture? Even this: "Thou [God] art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity."
