Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1907-12-12
"EViL is nor POWER. TX
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pOSeu power Oh evil, SOcdtIed, anC
has conceded to this Self-asserteC
and self-asserting phenomenon O.
mortal mind a place in human ex
perience 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
necessity be in accord with His own
divine nature.
The belief of power in evil is a
belief in the power to harm your
self and to harm others, to lie, to
steal, to murder, to break all the
commandments ofGod. That this
belief should prevail is possible
only because the truth of being is
not clearly understood. That it is
o mistaken belief is easily seen
from its own contradictory char
acter. Jesus said, ga good tree
cannot bring forth evil fruit, Meth
er can q corrupt tree bring forth
good fruit;" and if we start with
the admitted fact that God is ON
nipotent, that He is infinite good,
we can never admit that there is a
power opposed to Him and to His ma
nature. That evils real or has pow
er to an unthinkable proposition
unless we absolutely deny the IN
FINITUDE 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. Ii
evil with it's train of sin, sickness
and death could have power, God,
good, would be be dethroned-
would not be omnipotent. Such a
proposition must be rejected by
every Christian, by every mono
theist.. Evil is no more real, be-
cause it seems to be real, than a
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 prophetically
that at no distant day the mental
assassin will be punished legally as
certainly as the man or woman who
sends bullet into a mans heart.
To-day even the mental assassin is
punished morally, for no one can
desire to commit without mourning
the penalty named in the Scrip
ture, eye know that no murderer
hath eternal life abiding in him."
in other words, that the criminal
can experience no harmony unless
he repents and reforms. In Divine
Science Life is God, and God is in
finite, all; but to the personal
senses the belief of death is as real
as the fact of life, hence the belief
that says, III can kill a man men
tally and no. suffer for it, " may be
father to the thought of commit
ting the crime of trying to kill a
man, since as a man ''thinketh in
his heart, so is he"
Christian Science combats the
false belief of power in evil, and
frees mankind from the effects of
this delusion. Its leading postu-
lates are that God is the only pow
er, that evil is not power. The
perverted beliefs which find their
foundation in the supposed reality
Of matter and godlessness do disap-
pear when the truth of being is I'M
derstood. Mrs. Eddy writes IN
SCIENCE AND HEALTH, page 1856,
civil is negation, because it is
the absence the truth. 1t is moth
ing, because it is the absence OF
something. 1t is unreal, because
it is the absence of something 1t
is unreal, because it presupposes
the absence of the omnipotent and
Omnipresent God. Mortals must