Arizona republican., 1908-02-10

of good or to manifest it in any de-
 gree is to know something of God.
 There is no such thing as an agnostic
 or unbeliever in all the earth.
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ACCOUNTS
 FOR EVIL - Admitting as all
 Christians do, at least osten-
 sibly that the Ten Command
 ments originated in God it is not
 inevitable to conclude that they ex-
 press truth or science? Practically
 the first of them. "'rhou shalt have no
 other gods before me" Is all, inclusive.
 It coincides with the omnipotence. om-
 niscience. and omnipresence of God,
 that Is. the ell power. 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 ex-
 perience. 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 Science reconciles the average
 Christian to these statements and oth-
 CTS 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
 Tha CRianRa nlPq rlN shows that. although human experi-
 ence is at variance with the truth of absolute science. which has been brief
 ly and, I confess, inadequately stated
 here, yet such experience but reveals the need of science. Moreover. Chris tian Science gives him the logical and irrefutable facts of being. teaches
 him the science of Truth, the science of Life, and thus enables him to face human difficulties fearlessly and re-
 move them just in proportion to his understanding of that science. The
 tendency with a beginner. however. is often to utterly misconstrue the teach ing of Christian Science upon this
 point. and to misjudge 1t in conse- quence. He is apt to say. How ab- surd These Christian Scientists say that all is good" And we agree with him that such a construction placed upon Christian Science teaching would make one consider it absurd. The construction, however. is erroneous. Christian Science is no system of sup
 erficial optimism. It declares the science of Life or Being and shows
 it's availability to man through right understanding and correct practice. It declares God is good and that in and of Him is no evil at all but 1t never de- clares that human experience is all good. On the contrary, Christian Scientists admit with all other people that in human experience sin. sickness and death abound Mankind, looking always to material things for satis faction, and to a belief in the mixture of Spirit with matter for religious con has rot found deliverance. No one attaining the object of all his desires. CT satisfying his high est ambitions, has ever found happi- ness thereby. Neither has the belief that one must die in order to gain heaven ever produced happiness. Theo- ries have never satisfied human long
  should expect them to do so since we demand science in business, in me- chanics. and in all ordinary affairs, great or small. It is only the great est of all problems. the problem of life itself, that has been ignorantly rel egated to the realm of mere belief.
 Ascribing sin. sickness. and death to God has never accounted for them. On the contrary, 1t has tended 10 per petuate them. and to cause fear and Christian Science ever strictly demands that the basis or Principle of all being shall be con- tinuaIly recognized. and shows that at first the beginner does not need to fasten his thought upon evil and en- deavor to account for 1t. He has new CT been able to do so by any theories or thoughts. which have come to him from ordinary religious teaching or from material science. It should not appear unreasonable to him that at first he be required to put these in- quiries aside until he shall have prov ed something of the affirmative state ments of Christian Science. When he shall have accomplished that much. ne WILL, TOT tne IlTSI tune, DcSiH lO the nature of the evil and answer for himself the questions as to the seeming reality of the human ex- periences involved in sin, sickness. and death. Let it be here said. however, that Christian Science does answer these questions satisfactorily. and that it provides a complete and perfectly solution of all problems of human existence. It is the only system in the world which has ever done this, and while Christian Scien- lists do not pretend that they have solved all problems, they do generally declare that they have gained great and happiness through even a partial demonstration or the sublime facts of Christian Science by which even the most personal and un- thoughts are being purified. and the possibility of the divine prom ise in some measure realized: 'I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness" Through progress and proof of his own understanding of Christian Science, one begins to com prehend the explanation made by it as to the nature of evil wherein it is seen that sin. sickness, and death are no part of God, the Mind which is holiness, health and life; that, there fore sin, sickness. and death are with