Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-08
EVIL is NOT POWER
DECLARES FOUNDER
OF CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LEADERS HASTEN TO CORRECT ERROR
Explain Their Understanding That No Form Of
Evil Can Do the Work of Truth or Have
Power or Entity-Mankind Is Awakening
to the Universal Dominion of Good

ward the old church, and you hear no
such sentiments oppressed by any Chris
tian Scientists at any of their meetings
or elsewhere. They have left the old
churches because they have found, in
the Christian Science religion, prac-
tical every day help, and health and
happiness, that the old church did not
affc-d. Notwithstanding this, Christian
Scientists do not clairn a monopoly in
religious or humanitarian work. They
recognize the good that others are do
ing for mankind. They are ready to
welcome TO this great and beneficent
work Of healing all who believe and are
willing and able to a. the work. jesus
command to heal the sick was to all.
and all who believe on him should be
doing the work.
Why Not Test It?
Every church, every good Christian
can do the work IL they will. But in
stead they deny that any one but Jesus
and his disciples have ever been able
to heal disease, and Christian Scien-
lists are assailed as unbelievers and
unchristian for making the claim that
they Can dc the work of lealines 3
Would 1t not be wise before denying
the power for other churches and
Christian people to test for themselves
the efficacy of the Christian Science
method Of healing? Christian Scient-
lists are willing at all times to be
judged by their works. They would
rejoice to see the work being done by
all churches in the way taught and
demonstrated by the master. His
teachings are open to all alike. The
Bible, rightly and spiritually con-
strued, is the word of God to man.
Either divine love will and does heal
disease, as claimed by Christian Scient-
lists, or their religion is false. They
demonstrate the truth of what they
claim by healing the sick. destroying
sinful habits and restoring man to har-
mony and happiness through the right
understanding of God and of himself
Can any one furnish Nan adequate rea-
son for the attacks made upon Chris
tian Science under such circumstances,
and when the works claimed to have
been done are open to fair investiga-
tion and to exposure If found false? 1t
can hardly be a matter of surprise that
thousands of the members of the old
churches are leaving their churches
because they deny that this healing
can be done, and turning to the church
that not only maintains that God will
heal the sick If man will keep his
commandments and accept the healing,
but is proving it in thousands of we'll
authenticated cases by the actual heal
iiB VI I'LL manner OF QlSeaSeS, many
of them pronounced by physicians and
generally understood to be incurable.
Can Serve but One Master
| Other churches are saying why should
the people go out of the old churches to
be healed and to heal others? Why not
do the work in their own church? The
answer is simple enough. The reason
should be perfectly manifest to any
thoughtful person. Could you expect the
healing to be done by and through the
influence of a church which denies that
such work of healing can be done, and
whose minister denounces the claim that
1t can be done as heresy and blasphemy? +?
When the old churches go about this
work of healing. conscientiously, and in
the right way, and are able by so doing
to prove the sincerity and truth of their
professions in this respect, there will be
no occasion for their members to seek
health and happiness outside of their
church.
But neither men nor churches can serve
two masters. The belief in the reality and
power Of evil must be overcome, and the
faith and understanding that God is all,
and that he is Good, established The
Christian Science church is endeavoring
to do this work and its sympathy goes
out to every other church that is consci-
entiously laboring to establish Gods king
dom on earth. JOHN d. WORKS.