Since God is All, there is no room for His unlikeness. God, Spirit, alone created all, and called it 9Evil not produced by Godgood. Therefore evil, being contrary to good, is unreal, and cannot be the product of God.

3    Vibrating like a pendulum between sin and the hope of forgiveness, — selfishness and sensuality causing con-Moral retrogressionstant retrogression, — our moral progress will 6be slow. Waking to Christ’s demand, mortals experience suffering. This causes them, even as drown -ing men, to make vigorous efforts to save themselves; and 9through Christ’s precious love these efforts are crowned with success.

    “Work out your own salvation,” is the demand of 12Life and Love, for to this end God worketh with you.

    Spiritual sense is a conscious, constant capacity to un-derstand God.

    But what say prevalent theories? They insist that Life, or God, is one and the same with material life so-15called. They speak of both Truth and error as mind, and of good and evil as spirit. They claim that to be life which is but the objective state of material sense, — 18such as the structural life of the tree and of material man, — and deem this the manifestation of the one Life, God.

21    This false belief as to what really constitutes life so detracts from God’s character and nature, that the true Spiritual structuresense of His power is lost to all who cling to 24this falsity.

27    Who, that has felt the perilous beliefs in life, substance, and intelligence separated from God, can say that there False claims annihilatedis no error of belief? Knowing the claim of 30animal magnetism, that all evil combines in the belief of life, substance, and intelligence in matter, electricity, animal nature, and organic life, who will deny 451 451:1that these are the errors which Truth must and will an-nihilate? Christian Scientists must live under the con-3stant pressure of the apostolic command to come out from the material world and be separate. They must re -nounce aggression, oppression and the pride of power. 6Christianity, with the crown of Love upon her brow, must be their queen of life.

Erring human mind-forces can work only evil under whatever name or pretence they are em-9ployed; for Spirit and matter, good and evil, light and darkness, cannot mingle.

3    All forms of error support the false conclusions that there is more than one Life; that material history is as Spirit the only intelligence and substancereal and living as spiritual history; that mortal 6error is as conclusively mental as immortal Truth; and that there are two separate, an-tagonistic entities and beings, two powers, — namely, 9Spirit and matter, — resulting in a third person (mortal man) who carries out the delusions of sin, sickness, and death.

12    The first power is admitted to be good, an intelligence or Mind called God. The so-called second power, evil, is the unlikeness of good. The third power, mortal man, is a supposed mixture of the first and second antagonistic powers, in-telligence and non-intelligence, of Spirit and matter.

18    Such theories are evidently erroneous. They can never stand the test of Science.

30The error, which says that Soul is in body, Mind is in matter, and good is in evil, must unsay it and cease from such 205 205:1utterances; else God will continue to be hidden from hu-manity, and mortals will sin without knowing that they 3are sinning, will lean on matter instead of Spirit, stumble with lameness, drop with drunkenness, consume with dis-ease, — all because of their blindness, their false sense 6concerning God and man.

    Evil is a negation, because it is the absence of truth. 12It is nothing, because it is the absence of something. It Evil negative and self-destructive is unreal, because it presupposes the absence of God, the omnipotent and omnipresent. 15Every mortal must learn that there is neither power nor reality in evil.

9    Christian Science, understood, coincides with the Scriptures, and sustains logically and demonstratively Scientific and Biblical factsevery point it presents. Otherwise it would 12not be Science, and could not present its proofs. Christian Science is neither made up of contra-dictory aphorisms nor of the inventions of those who scoff 15at God. It presents the calm and clear verdict of Truth against error, uttered and illustrated by the prophets, by Jesus, by his apostles, as is recorded throughout the 18Scriptures.

    The understanding that the Ego is Mind, and that 12there is but one Mind or intelligence, begins at once to Servants and mastersdestroy the errors of mortal sense and to supply the truth of immortal sense. This understand -15ing makes the body harmonious; it makes the nerves, bones, brain, etc., servants, instead of masters. If man is governed by the law of divine Mind, his body is in sub-18mission to everlasting Life and Truth and Love. The great mistake of mortals is to suppose that man, God’s image and likeness, is both matter and Spirit, both good 21and evil.

Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding 27to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle, — is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal.