HOW timely is the Psalmist's query (Ps. 2:1), "Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?" The Psalmist must have understood the impotence of error when confronted by Truth, for he continues, "He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision."
Evil today is stirred to its depths and is being brought to the surface. The student of Christian Science, having some measure of spiritual understanding, has learned not to be disturbed by the vain imaginings of mortals. He does not, however, ignore evil's false ideologies or its claim to be organized power, but ever turns to the basic teachings of Christ Jesus and of Christian Science that God, Spirit, is All-in-all, that man and the universe are wholly spiritual and perfect, and that therefore evil is but an illusion.
Where could we find the answer to the Psalmist's question and the needed remedy more clearly stated than in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"? There Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 559): "The 'still, small voice' of scientific thought reaches over continent and ocean to the globe's remotest bound. The inaudible voice of Truth is, to the human mind, 'as when a lion roareth.' It is heard in the desert and in dark places of fear. It arouses the 'seven thunders' of evil, and stirs their latent forces to utter the full diapason of secret tones. Then is the power of Truth demonstrated, —made manifest in the destruction of error."
