The La Jara chronicle., 1907-12-13
EVIL IS NOT POWER" ]"
tFrom Christian Science Sentinel }

power of evil, so-called, and has
conceded to this self-asserting
phenomenon of mortal 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 su-
preme infinite Mind who governs
and guides the universe according
to 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 of God. That
this belief should prevail is pos
sible only because the truth of be-
ing is not clearly understood
That it is a mistaken belief is cas-
lily seen from its own contradictory
character. Jesus said, "A good
tree cannot bring forth evil fruit,
neither can 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 power opposed to Him
and to His nature That evil
is real or has power is an un-
thinkable proposition unless We
absolutely deny the infinitude of
God, good. No form of evil can
do the work of Truth, or have
power or entity: evil can do moth
ing but destroy itself. If evil with
its train of sin, sickness and death
could have power, God, good
would be dethroned-would not
be omnipotent. Such "A propo-
sition must be rejected by every
Christian, by every monotheist.
Evil is no more real, because it
seems to be real, than a wicked or
u 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 CON-
NIT 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 a bullet into a mans
heart. To-day even the mental
assassin is punished morally, for
no one can desire to commit mur-
der without incurring the penalty
named in the scripture, ''Ge 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 infinite, ALL
but to the personal senses the be-
lief of death is as real as the fact
of life, hence the belief that says,
Il can kill man mentally and
not suffer 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. 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 dis
appear when the truth of being is
understood. Mrs. Eddy writes in
Science and Health, page 1S6,
Evil is a negative, because it is
the absence of truth. 1t is moth
ing, because it is the absence of
something. 1t is unreal, because
it presupposes the absence of the
omnipotent and omnipresent God.
Mortals must learn that neither
power nor reality belongs to evil"
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