St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-01-02

that evil is coexistent with good, either
as life or one of the underlying princi-
pies of life. If life had a good and evil
origin, then life would be evil and
never good. as good aud evil produce
tvil and not good. How can life, man,
government. business, anything he
based upon two opposing principles?
Would not the effect of one nulliry, des-
troy, OF defeat the effect OF the other?
The Inventor Plans
his machine upon one principle. To
construct it upon two opposing prin-
ciples would produce machine which
would not operate upon either principle;
hence the effect would be, not good. but
evil. Pack barrel of half-rotten and
half-sound apples and the result will be
barrel Of rotten apples. Build house
of sound and unS0und timberS and the
result will be an unsound house. Fill
the child's mind with good and bad
thoughts, and the result will be bad
child. Thus we see anything based
upon good and evil is always evil in the
end; and so religion based upon the be-
lief that mind, life, God, man, are both
good and evil will be evil in its outcome.
1t will leave man in sin still-never free
as long as he holds to these Opposites.
Hate and anger, selfishness and love.
purity and impurity, falsehOod and
truth, dishonesty and honesty, cruelty
and kindness. weakness and strength,
spirit and flesh, are contrary one to the
other, and never can form a cOpartner-
ship upon which life or man could be
established and work out the end of
being, perfection. Either good or evil
must be accepted as true, end
the other regarded as false in
all its claims. Any system of
religion, then, founded upon one of these
opposites must be absolutely false or
absolutely true. Modern Christianity,
founded upon both, is partly true and
partly false, that is. 1t contains many
truths and many fallacies. the fallacies
multiplying the ultimate effect of the
truth. We have reasoned that Chris
tianity founded upon good and evil is
false, and we know that any system
founded upon evil alone is absolutely
false, therefore there is but one founda-
ton remaining good. Christian
science is founded upon this rock, and
for that reason
Is Absolutely True.
1t rules out all evil as entity, power.
reality. AS one writer gloWingly de.
clared, the principles of Christian
science run like line of fire between
the reality of coed and the unhealthy of
evil" The student of Christianity
must discern this line of fire to rightly
comprehend the truth. This once seen
and adhered to will solve every problem
of life, explain the Bible and continne
unfolding to us the developments OF
life's science while eternity shall last.
Christian. or divine. science takes God
as the only good, the only love. the only
life, intelligence, substance and power
of the universe.
Upon this absolute premise its con-
illusions are deduced with mathemati-
col eXactneSs, and God and man are
found consistent and harmonious
throughout.
If evil held coparlnership with God
and Christianity, and science rejected
evil as untruth, that W Ould be rejecting
God; or to reject the reality of evil in
man would be equ ally wrong. for that
would be rejecting Gods works.
You will soon learn in Christian sci
ence, that one statement being true, all
must be true, and if one were false all
would be false. Why? Because all are
drawn from the one principle and I'M
fold like the petals of rose, and there
is perfect agreement of consistency
between them. The knowledge of the
science of life teaches us the impossible
ity of successfully working from two
opposite standpoints. But even with
out this knowledge we should realize
that impossibility. If God comprised
both perfection ana lmperfectiOn, He
could not be at peace, even with Him.
self, but must be forever at war within,
and could accomplish nothing. He must
be perfect in every respect. SO perfect
in intelligence as to embrace all inteli-
gence, good. bad or Indifferent; so per-
feet i'll power as to admit of no other or
lesser power; so infinite in presence as
to allow no space to be filled by another
presence. Thus, from the standpoint
of His allness, He would be at peace,
knowing no opponent and thus success
fully design and
Execute the Ends of Life.
Also on the other hand, if man re-
CARDS God as both perfect and imper-
fect--lf he declares in one breath that
He is omnisience, (all intelligence, that
he is amight Gall power) and that He is
everywhere present.; and in the next
talks OF evil as an intelligence. as hav-
ing power and filling space, he is simply
asserting God is perfect and imper-
feet" good and eviD. Thus he is trying
w QuJuob w OOu llOil WV
standpoints, and he can never do it. He
will hold to the one and despise the
other. He may be sincere and get
much good from all the good ideas he
has, but will never work out bis saliva
ton until he works from only one stand
point. The 'double-minded man" is
promised nothing.
If evil were intelligence, mind. power,
reality; to deny it all these, as Christian
science does, would make our religion
such falslty-such lie that those
coming under its influence or believing
it would be cast into deeper darkness
instead of gaining any spiritual light at
ali, or getting any other benefit.
| have heard people say, 81 have re
ceived great spiritual light from Chris
tian science; more than | ever had be-
fore, and | know there is much truth in
it, but l cannot believe it all" Little
do those people realize that when they
admit part of the truth of divine
science, they admit the whole, -when
they admit the result-they admit the
cause. "a good tree bringeth forth
good fruit" When we admit the correct
ness of one mathematical demonstration
which some one has shown US how 10
perform, we admit the whole of The
principles and conclusions of mathe
MATES.
Know this, that if divine science par
ticularly benefits you through partial
understanding, a thorough understand
ing will thoroughly benefit you.
The apparently stupid and unedu-
Gated begin mental unfolding which is
unexplained except from the standpoint
of the naturally perfect ability OF man
revealed in divine science.
Living in the consciousness of the
ever presence of the all good, denying
and regulating the all evil, will bring
you richer blessing in the end than
thousand random beliefs of the reality
and power of both good and evil God
and the deviD, be you ever so sincere.
But only they who first start from
this immaculate standpoint of the all
ness of God can understand the way to
work out his salvation in spiritual sci
ence. Yet in no other way can it be
done. Everyone that thirSteth may
come to tine waters aud drink.
All are welcome in Gods presence, all
are welcome here. Jesus made no dis