Perhaps no question has been more eagerly asked and less satisfactorily answered than the one that serves as the title of this editorial. The difficulty lies in the fact that the question asserts and impliedly assumes the reality of something that is not real, something that appears to be real only to a false sense of things. The question takes for granted the reality of evil and fails to discriminate between that which really is and that which merely appears to be.
Material sense, the false sense of things, poses the question. If an answer satisfactory to this false sense could be given, it would authenticate error; it would assign truth to error and so seem to perpetuate error in the name of truth.
The only correct answer to the question is that sin, disease, and death have no cause, no creator, no Principle. As this answer is found to be reasonable and acceptable, the burden these falsities impose on mankind will become progressively less until it finally disappears.
