Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-17
EVIL is NOT POWER"

A Reprint from Christian Science Sentinel.
An article in the October Arena has
unwittingly exploited the supposed
power of evil, so-called, and has con-
ceded to this self-asserted and self
asserting phenomenon of mortal mind
place in human experience which it
could not occupy without dethroning
God. good. and robbing Him of his
place as the one supreme infinite Mind
who governs and guides the universe
according to his will and pleasure,
which will and pleasure must of nec-
cesity be in accord with his own divine
nature
The belief of power in evil is belief
in the power to harm yourself and to
harm others, to lie, to steal, to murder,
10 break all the commandments of God
That this belief should prevail is posi-
Bile only because the truth of being is
not clearly understood. That it is
mistaken belief is easily seen from its
own conditionary character. Jesus
said. IA good tree cannot bring forth
evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree
bring forth good Fruit and if we start
with the admitted fact that God is ON
nipotent, that He is intimate good, we
can never admit that there is a power
opposed to Him and to His nature.
That evil is real or has power is an I'M
thinkable proposition unless we abso-
lutcly deny the infinitude of God, good.
No form of evil can do the work of
Truth, or have power or entity; evil can
do nothing but destroy itself. If evil
with its train of sin, sickness and death
could have power, Col, good would be
dethroned-would not be omnipotent.
Such proposition must be rejected by
every Christian, by every monotheist.
Evil is no more real, because it seems
to be real. than wicked or painful
dream in sleep is real.
But the individual who attempts
mentally or physically to produce the
belief of sin, disease, or death, is guilty
of the attempt to commit a murder, and
Mrs Eddy says scientifically and pro-
phetically that at no distant day the
mental assassin will be punished legally
as certainly as the man or woman who
sends bullet into mans heart. To
day even the mental assassin is pun
ished morally, for no one can desire to
| commit murder without mourning
the penalty named in the Scripture,
Eye know that no murderer hath eter-
nal life abiding in him." il other words,
that the criminal can experience no har
mony unless he repents and reforms
| In Divine Science life is God, apd God
is intimate, all; but to the personal SEN
ses the belief of death is as real as the
fact of life, hence the belief that says,
81 can kill man mentally and not suf-
| fer for it, may be father to the thought
of committing the crime of trying to
| kill man, since as man ''thinketh in
| his heart, so is he."
Christian Science combats the false
belief of power in evil, aud frees man
kind from the effects of this delusion.
Its leading postulates are that God is
the only power, that evil is not power
The perverted beliefs which find their
foundation in the supposed reality of
matter and godlessness do disappear
when the truth of being is understood.
Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health,
page iSee, EVIL is : negation, because it
is the absence or truth. 1t is nothing,
1t is unreal, because it presupposes the
absence of the omnipotent and omni-
present God. Mortals must learn that
neither power nor reality belongs to
evil" and again on page 1873, ITO sup
pose that God constitutes laws of in
harmony is mistake; discords have no
support from nature or divine law,
however much is said to the contrary.
Truth casts out all evils and materials
tic methods with the actual spiritual
law,-the law which gives sight to the
blind, hearing to the deaf, voice to the
dumb, feet to the lame If Christian
Science dishonors human belief, it
honors spiritual understanding; and the
one Mind God, good only is entitled
to honor"
The only possible source of evil is the
belief that evil is real and has power
This belief is being rapidly dispelled by
Christian Science, and mankind is
awakening 20 the universal dominion
of good, the birthright of the sons and
daughters of God. Jesus said, None
is good, save one, that is, God"