The thought is sometimes voiced that a person's pattern of activities constitutes his way of life. This way of life, it may be noted, is at times harmonious and at other times quite the reverse. If discord intrudes, the individual may try to console himself by adopting a stoical attitude and repeating with resignation the inept platitude, "One must take the rough with the smooth." This is tantamount to one's accepting evil as being as inevitable as good. Such false believing makes inroads on one's progress and well-being.
Mary Baker Eddy writes in her major work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 25), "Jesus taught the way of Life by demonstration, that we may understand how this divine Principle heals the sick, casts out error, and triumphs over death." In keeping with the Bible, Christian Science proclaims that the true way of Life is the way of scientific godliness. This way is not based on abstruse doctrines; it is based on spiritual understanding and is attended by health, happiness, and well-being. As thought is spiritualized, one's daily endeavors are blessed.
To view evil as a power and the equivalent of good tends to nullify well-meant intentions. It might even lead one to admit the fatalistic suggestion that, whether good or bad, what is to be, will be. But what says Holy Writ? Turning the inspired pages, we find that actually what is to be, already is, for all that truly has being is the work of God; and His work is complete, unalterable, good. In the first chapter of Genesis we are told that God saw all that He had made and that it was very good. Recognition of the all-presence of good, God, brings to thought the nonpresence, the nothingness of evil.
