The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1905-09-29

ilNeHeSS IeHecLS the original, IL can coll
tain nothing that it not in the original.
Therefore ii man, the reflection of God,
is sick, then it must be because God is
sick. II win not be admitted that God
can be sick, and some may therefore say
that man is sick because he has broken
one OF Gods laws. But a broken law OF
truth, is always a mistake on results
in a mistake. To use "two times two
are fivev instead Of two times two are
four" is a mistake, an error, that is
neither true nor real, and so IL man is
sick as a RESULT Of broken law he is
still suffering from mistake, and not
from something true or real This mis-
take from its very nature can only be q
false belief, and not an entity, and can
be corrected by means Of the truth; the
corrected sense will prevail in proportion
to our belief i'll the truth and disbelief
in the mistake.
christian Science does not say that
sickness does not seem real TO the sui
ferer, even as real as the rest of his
body, but Jesus said, Judge not ac-
cording to the appearance. but Judge
righteous Judgment and Christian Sci
ence teaches that If sickness be Tecog-
| nized as a mistake or error it can be
healed by applying the truth. Then
Truth will transform the body by the
renewing Of the mind, as Paul says, and
man viii realize his rightful conscious
ness and dominion as son of God. A
sick SHINING, diseordant, unhappy, dis
eordant man, but only counterfeit OF
him. He is simply the distorted image
iproduced by the material senses, which
can be corrected by Truth This mortal
image has no more connection with the
! real man than has blue horse seen by
one wearing blue glasses, with the white
horse at which he is looking.
"The problem of evil and sin, its orr
gin and nature, has puzzled the ages
| and the great stumbling block that pre-.
vents its solution is that believing the
evidence Of the senses, every one starts
out with the premise that evil is real
and then tries to explain it or account
for it, 1t is like the effort of the old
astronomers who tried to explain the
solar system on the basis that the earth
was stationary and Hat They never
leould do it because the earth was neither
stationary nor flat and no correct result
could be obtained from a faulty basis
Of reasoning. The fact il that evil il
not real, is not an entity, and hence any
reasoning based on its supposed reality
is fallacious and fruitless.
EVIL is the seeming absence Of good
even as darkness is the absence of light
and discord in music is the absence Of
harmony. There can be no actual abb
sence Of good, since God is infinite, ever
present good, any more than there can be
la place OF condition where two times
two do not make four. The statement
s'two times two make fve," seems To be
the absence of s'two times two make
four as ignorance is the absence oil un-
lderstanding. Two times two do not
make five, hence il is nonresident So
evil is nonresident for it has no truth, il
lexists nowhere except as a false be-
/ lief When sin becomes unreal to any
one it ceases to appeal to him and hence
Is not INDUCED in. He who claims that
sin is unreal and then INDUCES in it, is
lpiling up wrath against the day OF
Wrath" Mrs Eddy's teaching is very
emphatic ON this point that sin brings
inevitable suffering and the suffering
must continue until the sin ceases.
"Ihe entire subject Of Christian Sci
/ titb toHtbHti WIN lbS dppiiS'biVh " Au
man needs, is fully set forth in the
Christian Science textbook Science
and Health with Key to the Scriptures,
written by the discoyerer and founder
of Christian Science, Mary Baker G..
Eddy. This book might well be termed
the Christian Scientists commentary on
/ the Bible, containing as it does the
Christian Science Interpretation of the
Holy Scriptures. The reading of this
book has brought health and happiness
to thousands, and viii bring it to you.
People suffering from the most malig-