When I was at school, several years before I became a Christian Scientist, a pugnacious boy decided to make me his victim by regularly trying to start a fistfight. His aggressiveness persisted for several weeks. Finally I decided enough was enough and was ready to turn and face him. Immediately he backed down and never bothered me again.
Here is a valuable lesson because it illustrates a characteristic of evil. When resisted, evil will flee, because it has no law to sustain it. Mrs. Eddy counsels, "Resist evil—error of every sort—and it will flee from you." Science and Health, p. 406;
Today, as a Christian Scientist, I have learned an even better way to disarm the bully, or impersonal evil. A way that does not depend on the use of human will or physical courage. It is the scientific knowing that divine Mind, Love, is All, and that Love divine impels love and peace among its offspring. Various phases of evil have no genuine cause, validity, or motive power, because they have no creator.
