"Truth is always the victor," Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 380 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." To one who may be frightened or discouraged with what has seemed to be a long and unrelenting siege of suffering, these words bring immeasurable comfort. God is Truth, and "Truth is always the victor." Victory over evil, therefore, is inevitable. Victory over pain, poverty, limitation—evil of every kind—is inevitable. This we can accept as an indisputable fact.
But when, we may ask ourselves, when may we expect the inevitable victory over evil? Again words from Science and Health come to our aid (p. 39): "'Now ' cried the apostle, 'is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation,'—meaning, not that now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now is the time in which to experience that salvation in spirit and in life." Now, of course!
If evil has even a possibility of power or of presence, a moment of reality, then there must be a time when Truth, God, is not power and is not present. But there is no such time. There is no time when Truth is not Truth, when God is not God—omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. Like a fresh, invigorating breeze which blows away the fog or mist on an autumn day, God's power and presence can completely blow away the cloud which may have seemed for so long to have overlaid and enveloped us.
