Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-04-05

this very age, comes Christian Science
to declare that they can get out natur
ally, lawfully, scientifically; it comes
as message of hope and promise to
race which is in supreme need.
The Mind Which Was in Christ.
"The science of mind declares that
to the extent that man is governed by
the divine Mind, he will manifest per.
fection, health, life, welfare, prosperi.
ty7the ampleness and completeness Of
harmonious existence. 1t was this Mind
I which was also in Christ; which can
celed temptation and sin, healed the
sick, raised the dead, raised Jesus from
the dead and overcome the world, the
| flesh, and the devil TO be carnal
minded is death Sin and disease are
the offspring of this earnal mind; they
are no part of the nature or of the pro.
curement of the divine Mind.
Good is good, in nature, design, pow
er, action, substance and operation. All
that he has made and done is good. His
laws are good, and He has already done
Everything that is essential to the su.
preme welfare of man.
Conversely we repudiate the effort
to solve the mystery of evil by ASSUME
ing that any part of it has been insti-
tuted by God, or that He need to in.
volve himself in or with evil in any
way or for any purpose, or that He does
so involve Himself.
"God is not only life. but has or
dained life and is the law of life and
health for man. The theology Chris
tian Science is consistently parallel
throughout with this declaration. 1t
also declares that God has created man
that he might have being, and not for
the purpose of inficting upon him in
veterate agony and disease.
"We repudiate all assumption that
His law is the law of sin and death.
Sickness is contary to God, and God is
COHtldiy W IT, OOu lS LHe HdluIdl
healer of the sick, and is able, willing
and ever ready to save mortals from the
evils imposed upon them by an utterly
perverted sense of existence.
"The supposition that God has in.
duced the pangs and horrors of disease
and death engenders II fear of Him-a
fear and alarm concerning the author
and the law and destiny of human life;
a fear concerning the very foundation
of existence. We Christian Scientists
are no longer afraid of God or His
Heaven, which we are learning is with
in us, to the extent that we are gov
erned by the Mind which is in Christ.
Evil Not of Cod
"We disagree with others concern.
ing the nature of evil. Mrs. Eddy
knows full well that Whatsoever a
man soweth, that shall he also reap,
and that sin inevitably imposes suffer
ing on its victim; nevertheless, she de-
clares that sin, sickness and kindred
evils are unreal, meaning thereby that
they belong in the realm of the temper
al illegitimate, abnormal. They are the
paraphernalia of mortal belief or theI
carnal mind-unlawful unrighteous and
-monstrosities of unnatur-
al existence.
"'The world generally believes that
evil is an enduring entity having a
basis in truth; that il is as actual and
substantial as good, or God, and that
it's indestructible immortality will be
manifested in an eternal hell and devil.
If this were true, an evil as an entity
were consequently indestructible, when
the entreaty of Jesus TO resist and over
come it must needs have been a mock
cry. But, on the contrary, the career of
Jesus is in demonstration of the power
of something to abolish evil, its pre-
tense and presence. II is a thinkable
proposition that our Master sought TO.
equip mortal man to destroy something
that God has made, and is, therefore,
part of infnityi Do Christ and Chris
tianity ask of you something that can
not be dOnei
"When Jesus healed the sick did he
destroy the work of God or devilf
Was il the mission of Jesus to destroy
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