PROBABLY all of us when perplexed have been approached by a sincerely intentioned well-wisher with the advice, "Don't take it all so much to heart!" Certainly we cannot help loving our friend for his desire to be encouraging.
Is his counsel sound? Yes, if his words alert us to supplant mere human emotion with divine Mind's gifts of spiritual insight and intuition. No, if the words lull us into apathy and we fail to deny presence and power to evil and to acknowledge with determination the allness, presence, and reign of God, good.
In accordance with the Bible, Christian Science is teaching mankind the foundational lesson that evil is neither cause nor effect, creator nor creation. God is the only cause. Therefore evil is actually suppositional, without a real source. God's dominion is reflected by His expression, man.
