Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-09-13

lts own sake, knows that the sinner /
self-deceived by evil. and must soone
or later reap the fruit Of his delusioi
that there is good In evil. The know
edge of both good and evil that tn,
serpent once offered and still offers tt
mankind. bears only the fruit of evil
1t drove Adam and Eve from thC
garden of peace and plenty, and 1t is
the foundation of all the evil In the
world today. Since God, the one In
finite good, knows the absolute truth
about good He can neither know noi
believe evil, which Is the lie about IT
So man. created IN His image and like
ness. does not know and never did be-
lieve In evil. Mankind, which repre.
sents the false belief in both good and
evil, is learning In Christian Science
that this belief is not divine or reason.
able human intelligence. Through this
understanding, In degree, of the ma
ture of God, good, Christian Science is
destroying the belief In evil as a fact
of being, and thereby destroying the
delusion of mortals that evil has any
thing In store for them but ultimate
shame, misery, and disgrace.
Respecting Truth, is it's nature good
or evil? 1t certainly does not belong
to both, for Truth cannot contradict
Itself or contain the elements of con-
tradiction and warfare; hence Truth
and good are one. Is 1t any wonder
that the great apostle, Paul. should
say that the wisdom of this world Is
foolishness with God, or that Jesus
should declare this worldly intelligence
so highly esteemed among men to be
an abomination in the sight of God?
Christ In Christian Science, has again
come to human comprehension to break
the yoke of material bondage to the
belief In evil as a factor in real cause
or effect, and thereby lead mortals out
of their sef-imposed slavery to sin,
disease, and death, through the path
way Of increasing spiritual under
standing, into the promised land of
eternal life. Since, according to the
Scriptures and Christian Science, God
Is Spirit land Spirit is infinite Mind,
which must include and be infinite in
telligence. matter or non-intelligence
can have no real existence, but like
darkness 1t is only an appearance or
shadow of the reality behind it.
Scientists Puzzled 7
Paul, In his letter to the Galations,
declares that the flesh (matter) lusteth
against the Spirit, and vice versa. He
explains what the fruit of the Spirit
Is, and also what the fruit of mat
ter, or rather the belief In matter, is.
This shows that Spirit and matter are
opposite and contradictory in their
very essence and nature. Here we see
again that If Spirit or Mind be true,
that which contradicts 1t cannot be
true but is only false human belief.
Finity is a contradiction of infinity,
the nature of one being contrary to
the nature of the other. Matter or
non-intelligence, is unlike intelligence,
and is a contradiction thereof; hence,
If intelligence Is true and real, that
which contradicts 1t is untrue and un-
real. God cannot possibly know or
believe in that which contradicts and
therefore denies and wars against the
infinite and perfect nature of His own
Being. Humanity believes in matter
now, but 1t can never know 1t. and
while 1t believes in matter 1t can never
know Spirit, which is the very anti
podes of matter. This Is why worldly
learning calls God the Great Unknow-
able.
The greatest physical scientists of
the day have recently stated that mat
ter is nothing in and of itself, but Is
merely the phenomena of force, and
this force they believe to be electricity;
but they frankly admit that they do
not know what electricity Is. Thus
this human learning, even as 1t adj
norant of both cause and effect and
that 1t is cropping in the night of mem
tai darkness to account for itself. This
is desirable progressive state for the
human mind to be in. It is beginning
to see its need of light and is par
TALLY ready to turn away from its
former basis of nonintelligent matter
to infinite Mind as the primary and
origin and governor of
oil racI M a n faaf n fiOna and law
Through the universal dissemination
OF the Science of Mind, the worlds
thinkers are rapidly approaching a
state of consciousness which will ac-
cept the fnvulnerable position of Chris
tian Science, that without an abso-
lutte, infinite basis or Principle, and
every outward expression or outline of
the same, must eternally possess the
oneness and perfection-of
It's basis or source. From this premise
It must further and inevitably follow
that every conclusion or expression
derived from a finite source must con-
ain, in appearance, contradictory and
qualities; hence the mani
'estations of ininity cannot be dis
,erned by or through a mortal finite
sense.
Debt of Humanity
The basic law of mathematics being
recognized by mortals as limitless in
is special field of operation, all its
'ules express the unity of perfection of
his law, wherein the doctrine of dual
ty has no recognition. Under this law. il
natter or nonintelligence were infinite,
here could be no Mind nor anything
hat is indissolubly united with Mind
ind since Mind only, and it's mani
or reflection, can be infinite,
natter is but one phase of that duality
which expresses the belief of finity,
md a mortal, material mentality Is the
higher stratum that rounds the dual
expression of this finite belief about in
mite Mind. Awakened thought be-
holds the sure promise that the near
uture will offer a more brilliant period
Il transformation and advancement of
human thought than the known rec
'rds of human history now contain.
Mrs. Eddy in Science and Health |
With Key to the Scriptures" has most |
learly set forth the nature and fruit |
f false knowledge, more properly |
FAMED by her as false belief; and she |
las also unfolded a demonstrable sci |
ntific and Christian basis and method |
or humanity to escape from the thral-
Iom of it's belief in and consequent |
experience of sin, disease and death. |
The debt of gratitude which the world |
yves her is at this hour feebly APP
but the monday of prac- |
ical Christianity is approaching that |
will not only do ample justice to the |
Christian reformers of all ages, but |
viii recognize the wonderful boon |
which Science and Health is and ever |
will be to mankind in providing for its |
and ultimate salvation |
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