The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-02-24

universally acceptable and satisfying to human reason. It declares that God, as tellgence, and it makes this fact clear to us and available through the use of the word mind as a synonym for the word God. It declares that God is mind and that mind is God. It never confuses the use of the word mind in this relationship, however, with what is ordinarily called a mortars mind, supposedly dependent upon matter or brain for intelligence, but on the contrary, uses 1t always in the divine sense. The thought of God as hu- manly personal has made His omnipres- ence seem impossible, but when we under stand that He is mind, His omnipresence is natural, reasonable and real to us.
 Christian Science Accounts For Evil.
 Admitting as all Christians do, at least ostensbly, that the. Ten Command ments originate in God, is it not inevitable to conclude that they express truth or Thou shalt have no other gods be- fore me-" is all-inclusive. It coincides with the omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of God. that is, the all pow CT, all knowledge and all presence of God or good. It clearly means that there is no power, knowledge or presence to evil The average human being, however, who believes that evil is sure to happen and that it is far more powerful than good, finds that the statements of the all power, knowledge and presence of God seem at variance with actual experience. Yet he is forced to admit that to acknowledge God as the sole Cause and Creator is to conclude that there is only one power, God, good, and that to admit any other is to break the first commandment. Chris tian to these statements and others which ton to these statements and others which he has said he believed and enables him to actually believe them. It shows. that the first commandment, ever declaring the one God, declares the one way of science.
 Belief In Christ.
 This separation of all evil from our thought of God Is unquestionably the way of science, the way of the first commandment. It is the way indicated in the teachings of Jesus the Christ. That Christian Scientists should be mis- understood in their practical applica- tion of those teachings by systems and theories which do not pretend to make any practical application of them, is perhaps inevitable, but whether so or not, the fact remains that practical proof indicates scientific understanding. The sick have been healed and are be- ing healed in Christian Science through scientific thought and thinking as in dicated in the teachings of Jesus. He clearly showed the necessity for obe- dience to the first commandment. He said: "A good tree connot bring forth evil fruit" Again He said: "Th ere is none good but one, that is God,' and He indicated the nature of prayer when He declared at the tomb of Lazarus: 'T knew that thou nearest me always" No one should think that the works of Jesus could be disassociated from abso- lute truth and therefore from science. His gospel is unquestionably the gospel of truth and must therefore be in the nature of scientific knowledge. He proved t.imself to be the only cerain healer of disease that has ever lived upon the earth. Was His meth cd less scientific than others because 1t com DlneQ the cOfnpdSsiot ol loNc WILL thS accuracy of truth? The world has been taught to believe that his works were miraculous, and no doubt they were so to those who did not understand )r have not understood them. Science Is always wonderful or miraculous to ig- norance We daily do many things which would be miraculous to the saw age. I'll is not in the nature of abso- lute truth, not in the nature of God, to set aside His immutable and etern u law.
 Salvation.
 Thus in Christian Science salvation becomes not a matter of belief depend ent upon disaster or death, but rath sr a process of demonstration. Necessari- ly 1t involves change from sin to h oliness. and Christian Science pro- yfdes a method whereby the sinner is enabled to prove his rightful domin- ion over sin. That sin in some form and in some way, either individually or racially, is the cause of human sui fering is self-evident. If sin should suddenly cease, disaster would soon vanish from the earth. Therefore the overcoming of sin is part of the over coming Of suffering, but salvation El Christian Science includes exemption from want. worry. sickness and all woe as well as from sin. A fragrant sinner, if touched with heartfelt regret, desires to be flee, but finds himself unable to cone with sinful tendencies. All re- ligious admonition has Iabitually buff feted the sinner with the demand that