The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-02-27
ALL IS MIND:
 EVIL DOES
 NOT EXIST
Comfortable Doctrin e Preached by Prof. Herring
 to Christian Scientists.

L IedcHeu Dy HFOf. Hef1ng to Christian Scientists.
 Matter, Pain, Sin Are a Man Hesitation of the Error of Mortal Mind. We'll Attended Meeting at
 the Stratfield Where For
 mer Educator Explains Doctrines of Mrs. Eddy, and Schemes of Healing Practiced by Her Follow CTS.
 ALL IS MIND Ra-.j etaoin eatoin Everything is mind. God is mind. This mind is good. It cannot think evil. Evil thoughts are the product of mortal mind. Real thinking is an &C., tivity of the Divine mind alone The Divine mind cannot think evil There fore all evil is unreal
 This was the lesson that Prof Her man s. Herring of Philadelphia deliv- cred to a considerable audience in the Stratf1eld. last night. The speaker is one of the strong men of the Chris t1an Science church. number of persons had been especially invited to hear him. He was introduced by R.
 w. Miller of this city, as "a son of the late Dr. Constantine Herring of Philadelphia, whom Hahnemann call- ed the Father of Homeopathy in Am erica He is a graduate of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania and for ten years held a professorship under the Board of Education in Philadelphia, and the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore"
 Ten years ago, as it appears, Prof Herring resigned from the latter posi- tion to devote himself to Christian Science work.
 MT Herring defined the science of salvation as being 'the demonstrable knowledge which affords deliverance from evil.
 salvation is not fully worked out until we have dominion over all dis cord and everything that causes it. This necessarily includes dominion over matters and it's laws.
 Unless we work out our salvation we will not gain the victory over the world the flesh and the devil as we are commanded.
 EIn working out our salvation we
 must first see that salvation or deliv- erance from evil is a mental process; that it is a transformation through mind and that it is both ethical and philosophical.
 '"The bible declares that to be car-( nally minded is death; but to be spir- itually minded is life and peace.
 '"Mrs. Eddy says: in the latter part of 1866 I gained the scientific certain ty that all causatiOn was Mind and every effect a mental phenomenon
 Christian science teaches that mat ter and material existence are pIle- nomena of mortal mind, concept of existence obtained through the physi- cal senses.
 "Now it is not the appearance but only the original that has power, intel ligence and substance. The manifes- tation of growth action or being in matter is but material concept of spiritual facts.
 'eThe ordinary human concept of mind is that which thinks, feels or wills, the intellect, or the activity of the brain. Christian Science reveals the fact that Mind is divine Principle, the infinite Life, Truth, Love, omnipo- tent, omniscient, omnipresent, the all- inclusive, eternal, unchanging, all- WlSo D0lHS, the Only cause dnO Cr0dCOr.
 This is a very different Mind from that which is supposed to result from the action of the gray matter called brain
 Christian Science makes it clear that material existence is not the man. Hesitation of this divine Mind but the of the counterfeit, called mortal mind.
 "It is this false concept of existence that does all the wiring thinking; that | believes in sin, disease and death ;that 1 claims there is life and intelligence in l matter.
 Since God is Mind, this Mind is l good, and it's effects must always be | good, never evil. AS real thinking is l only real thoughts or ideas are good.
 ''The difference between the method l of healing through mental suggestion, or hypnotism, and that of the divine | Mind, the Christ healing, must be clear y seen.
 ''When the effort is made to heal by suggestion, the operator endeavors by means of hypnotism to make the pa tent believe that he is not sick. He to change the belief but the cause of disease remains and in time manifests itself even in worse forms. The patient is no better off, he has not risen in the scale of being, he has no
  does not know any more about God and His Christ than before.
 Sickness is the result of mesmerlsm, Illusion. The human thought listens he arguments of mortal mind instead of refusing to believe them,-hence it's Ills. The sick are asleep in the mes nerisrn of material sense and need to De awakened to mans true existence IS Gods child. Christian Science shows IS the way to dosthis.
 "So also sin and all evil are mes neric illusion. Sin is indulged in be- ,ause the sinner believes that there s some good or pleasure in it, some ldvantage to be gained by indulgence.
 Mrs. Eddy did not simply state her discovery to the world; she first dem ,nstrated it and then offered it as Science for all mankind 0 profit by. This Science overcomes ,vil, by giving a true knowledge of tod and His Christ, it enables all hu- nanity to work out their own saliva ion and reach that pure consciousness, which Jesus called the kingdom of leaven."
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