There are thousands of people who, along with you, are reading this month's issue of The Christian Science Journal. Each of us looking on this page is surely individual—we live in different countries, have different backgrounds, have different appearances. Yet one thing we undoubtedly have in common is that we all have strong feelings about good and evil—we want more of the former and less of the latter.
More good and less evil in our lives is, of course, the call of the day, as it has always been. Evil, whether it's labeled dishonesty, hypocrisy, selfishness, illness, or injury, is something that everyone could do with a whole lot less of. The kind of good we all could use a great deal more of consists of things like brotherly love, selflessness, consideration, healing, regeneration, and intelligence.
There isn't a person reading this who hasn't felt frustrated with evil. We have wanted to destroy it, and sometimes we might even have felt tempted to take revenge on evildoers. But the highest antidote for evil isn't anything that has its impetus in human will. If human will were the answer, the human mind's blaming and revenge would have rid the world of evil long ago.
