The Pharisees fought Jesus on this issue. It furnished the battle-ground of
the past, as it does of the present. The fight was an effort to enthrone
evil. Jesus assumed the burden of disproof by destroying sin, sickness,
and death, to sight and sense.

Nowhere in Scripture is evil connected with good, the being of God, and
with every passing hour it is losing its false claim to existence or
consciousness. All that can exist is God and His idea.




Credo


It is fair to ask of every one a reason for the faith within. Though it be
but to repeat my twice-told tale,--nay, the tale already told a hundred
times,--yet ask, and I will answer.

_Do you believe in God?_

I believe more in Him than do most Christians, for I have no faith in any
other thing or being. He sustains my individuality. Nay, more--He _is_ my
individuality and my Life. Because He lives, I live. He heals all my ills,
destroys my iniquities, deprives death of its sting, and robs the grave of
its victory.

To me God is All. He is best understood as Supreme Being, as infinite and
conscious Life, as the affectionate Father and Mother of all He creates;
but this divine Parent no more enters into His creation than the human