Under the marginal heading "The great question" our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 307, 308): "Above error's awful din. blackness, and chaos, the voice of Truth still calls: 'Adam, where art thou? Consciousness, where art thou? Art thou dwelling in the belief that mind is in matter, and that evil is mind, or art thou in the living faith that there is and can be but one God, and keeping His commandment?'"
Alertness to duty causes one frequently to ask himself this momentous question. The sincere asking will never fail to awaken in him a higher sense of his obligations to God, to himself, and to his fellow man, and to create in him a greater desire to keep God's commandment by dwelling constantly in the living faith and understanding that there is in reality but one power, one presence, one Mind, namely, God.
The carnal mind would produce universal confusion by the constant din of conflicting mortal opinions; by the darkness of unenlightened human thought, manifested as doubt, fear, sin, disease; and by the chaos of a world torn by dissensions and fear. No evil, however, regardless of its seeming strength, can permanently survive its own hate, malice, and revenge. Evil claims to be something and all-powerful, but it is nothing in fact. In God's oneness, wholeness, completeness, and allness there is no hate, malice, revenge, greed, pride of power, or conquest. In Habakkuk (1:13) we read of God thus: "Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity."
