The origin of evil is the problem of ages. It confronts

each generation anew. It confronts Christian Science.

The question is often asked, If God created only the

good, whence comes the evil? [10]

To this question Christian Science replies: Evil never

did exist as an entity. It is but a belief that there is an

opposite intelligence to God. This belief is a species of

idolatry, and is not more true or real than that an image

graven on wood or stone is God. [15]

The mortal admission of the reality of evil perpetuates

faith in evil; and the Scriptures declare that “to whom

ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye

are.” This leading, self-evident proposition of Christian

Science, that, good being real, its opposite is necessarily [20]

unreal, needs to be grasped in all its divine requirements.