When Mary Baker Eddy says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 249), "You may condemn evil in the abstract without harming any one or your own moral sense, but condemn persons seldom, if ever," she makes it clear that to forgo personal condemnation should be the high aim of every student of Christian Science. This is a most worthy objective, not easy of attainment except through unselfed love inspired by devotion to divine Principle.
Christian Science is in the world today to bring healing to the sick and blessing to all mankind. It is accomplishing its mission in ever-increasing measure through imparting to individual consciousness the demonstrable understanding of Truth, Life, and Love, the truth of God and His spiritual creation, including man in God's image and likeness. This understanding reveals God's ever-present, infinite nature. He is the infinite Person. There is, in reality, no material person with an existence separate from God, good. God being infinite Person, there is no person to condemn. God being All, there is no evil.
Human experience, however, seems very different. Mortals appear to live in a world of many persons and much evil and to have an existence of their own. Christian Science explains with irresistible logic that the facts of spiritual being and the evil claims of human experience cannot both be true, and in the words of Paul it declares (Rom. 3:4), "Let God be true, but every [material] man a liar." It follows that as one travels with the passport of Christian Science from sense to Soul he finds that evil in all its forms, including sickness and sin, can be overcome as he refuses to concede reality to it and acknowledges God to be the only cause and creator.
