Los Angeles herald., 1908-01-26

tempt to commit a murder, and Mrs.
Eddy says scientifically and prophetic
ally that at no distant day the mental
assassin will be punished legally as GER
tainly 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 COM
init murder without mourning the PEN
atty named in the Scripture, 'Ye know
that no murderer hath eternal life abid-
ing in him; IN other words, that the
criminal can experience no harmony
unless he repents and reforms.
AS Man Thinks So He Is
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 man mentally and not
suffer for it, may be father to the
thought CT committing the crime of try
ing to kill a man, since as a man
'thinketh in his heart, so is he"
In Science and HEALTH" page 1856,
Mrs. Eddy declares: Evil is self-as-
sertive. 1t says am real entity,
overmastering good This falsehood
should strip evil of all pretensions. The
only power of evil is to destroy itself.
1t can never destroy one iota of good"
If, as is generally conceded, mesmer-
ism, hypnotism, etc, may be utilized
to accomplish evil results and to de-
fraud good, it is manifest that 1t is not
of God, but is a product and result of
moral sinful belief. and this is the
teaching of Science.
Christian Science demonstrates that
evil needs only to be understood in
order to be stunned; that sin and dis
ease are not overcome by human will
power. They can only be destroyed by
the realization of the divine power, by
viewing evil in the light of the omnipo-
tence. all power of good and thus deter
mining it's impotency and unreality.
There is less need for exercising human
will in the practice of Christian Science
than there is for darkness when we
open our windows for light. Hence
proofs of paganism and historical be-
liefs in mesmerism as means of heal
ing are neither progressive nor ger
name to a justification of power. The
power and justification of Christian
Science are found alone in its divine
origin and in the blessings it brings to
al mankind.
On page 1876 of Science and Health"
Mrs. EDDY says: 1.-THE press unwittingly
sends forth many sorrows and diseases
among the human family. 1t does this
by giving names to diseases and by
printing lonS descriptions which mirror
images of disease distinctly in
thought"
What Mrs. Eddy has said of the i'm
proprietY of advertising symptoms of
disease nay also be said of the i'll ad-
vised dissertations on mesmerism. A
description of the apparent possibilities
of merm erism hypnotism or mental
suggestion to do evil when unaccompa-
MED by thu explanation essential to
overcome such receptions, namely, that
they are but self-asserted lies of mortal
mind, which can have no influence over
those who are alive to their nature
may build up a false fear in one class
of thinkers, while with another class ii
tends to popularize belief in the power
IF evil and OF mortals to harm their
neighbors. Christian Science inspires
an overwhelming love of the good and
true. 1t destroys even the desire to
commit sin and thus reforms both the
practitioner and patient.-The Arena.