Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08


II unwittingly exploited the sup
1l posed power of evil. so called.
and has conceded to this self-asserted
and self asserting phenomenon Of NOR
tai mind a place in human experience
which it could not occupy without de-
throning God, good, and robbing Him
of His place as the one supreme in
finite 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, says the Christian Sci
ence Sentinel.
The belief of power in evil Is belief
in the power to harm yourself and to
harm others, to lie, to steal, to murder,
to break all the commandments OF God
That this belief should prevail Is pos
sible only because the truth OF being
is not clearly understood. That 1T is
mistaken belief is easily seen from It's
own contradictory character. Jesus
said. "a 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
omnipotent, that He is infinite good,
we can never admit that there is a
power opposed to Him and to His ma
ture That evil is real or has power is
an unthinkable proposition unless we
absolutely deny the infnitude 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 its train of sin, sickness and
death could have power, God, good,
would be dethroned-wou1d not be
omnipotent. Such a proposition must
be rejected by every Christian, by
every monotheist. Evil is no more
real. because it seems to be real, than
a wicked or painful dream in sleep is
real.
Punish Mental Assassins
But the individual who attempts mem
tally or physically to produce the belief
of sin. disease or death is guilty of the
attempt to commit 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. Today even the mental
assassin is punished morally, for no one
can desire to commit murder without In
curing the penalty named in the Scrip
ture, "Ye know that no murderer hath
eternal life abiding in him.; in other
no harmony unless he repents and re-
forms. In divine science life is God, and
God is infinite, all; but to the personal
senses the belief of death is as real as the
| fact of life, hence the belief that says,
'I can kill a man mentally and not suffer
for it," may be father to the thought of
committing the crime of trying to kill a
| man, since as a man "thinketh in his
heart, so is he."
Evil Is Negation
Christian Science combats the false be-
lief of power in evil, and frees mankind
from the effects of this delusion. Its lead
ing postulates are that God is the only
power, that evil is not power. The per-
verted 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 1861 EVIL IS
negation, because it is the absence of
truth. 1t is nothing, because it Is the alb
sence of something 1t is unreal, because
1t presupposes the absence of the omnipo-
tent and omnipresent God. Mortals must
learn that neither power nor reality be-
long to evil''; and again on page 1888: TO
suppose that God constitutes laws OF in
harmony is a mistake; discords have no
support from nature or divine law, how
ever much is said to the contrary.
Truth casts out all evils and materialistic
methods with the actual spiritual laws
the law which gives sight to the blind,
hearing to the deaf, voice to the dumb,
feet to the lame. If Christian Science dis
honors human belief, it honors spiritual
understanding; and the one mind (God)
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 manhind is awak-
ening to the universal dominion of good.
the birthright of the sons and daughters
of God. Jesus said, ''None is good, save
one, that is. God"