Los Angeles herald., 1909-12-13

short of the truth. the whole truth,
and nothing but the truth will satisfy
the demands Of Christian Science. Not
truth to which the physical senses
need subscribe. but the truth which
must be spiritually discerned, which
Is established now. as ii always has
been and always will be. Against this
truth nothing can prevail.
Ne lncurable Disease
Christian Science proves that no evil
is real. eternal or incurable. but all
evil has its source in the carnal mind,
the mind of mortals. and can be made
to yield to the divine Mind, God the
Almighty when mankind fulflls the
terms of cure and forgiveness. No
matter what form evil may take,
whether 1t manifests itself as moral.
! mental, or physical, as an inherited
tendency or idiosyncrasy. as loss of
faculties, as an apparently inveterat te
habit or uncomfortable appetite. as
progressive disease, organic or inor-
sanic functional. acute. or chronic,
the infinite, omnipotent Mind is equal
to every emergency and willingly mas
ters every phase of error, as mankind
complies with Gods ways Should the
evil to be eradicated have been pro-
nounced incurable by expert medical
opinion, by the wisest. most humane
Of physicians, even then that opinion
would stand for naught before God.
and the divine Mind which made
everything that was made and saw
that it was good, would still be a suf-
ticient saviour from and healer OF
that particular evil in response to the
prayer of righteousness or right under
standing. Or, should so-called natural
laws decree decrepitude or breakdown
as the result of overwork. trying eli
mate, or any other supposed cause,
God would still be available to inter
pose a successful veto and with His
immutable law Illustrate the attempted
destruction of man and restore him to
health and happiness.
Even II the breakdown is due to
moral weakness, TO sin. the law of God
can be applied to wipe out both the
desire to sin and the fear of it,, and
to obliterate with the sin itself also
every vestige of the consequences of
sin. whether physical or otherwise.
The so-called laws producing and gov
erning sin and sickness are not of di-
vine origin. else il were useless to at
tempt to destroy them along with sin
and sickness. All evil is by nature
evanescent and transltory. The at
pictures and awful penalties has not
lessened the hold of evil. but has
given it fictitious power. The day has
passed when suffering mankind can be
won to God or driven into heaven
through fear. Today public opinion
has come to recognize fear as the
seed whence spring many noxious
these weeds spoil the fair crops OF
the husbandman until. at the harvest,
they are bound in bundles and burned.
TO attempt TO rule by fear or to in
fluence others By fear even for their
good. as the saying is, is to SOW de-
structive seed broadcast in human
consciousness, where it must germi-
nate and develop TO it's own destruc-
tion. ....
Should the evil 10 be cured assume
the phase of loss of sustenance, should
there be fear Of lack or limitation.
Christian Science points Ia the true
significance OF the term substance as
the necessary antidote. Mrs. Eddy ex-
plains in Science and Health that
Spirit is substance. Material sense
cannot discern true substance. Spir-
tual sense alone can apprehend and
comprehend that which is eternal and
fadeth not away. Mankind is bidden
to contemplate the nature of true sub
stance, to cling to eternal Life and
ineXhaustible Love, and to discard the
false concepts which materialtty holds
or magnifles through the fear OF loss.
To know God is to have this same
Life and this same Love, and having
these. man has all Jesus said, Seek
We first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness: and all these things
shall be added unto you. If assailed
by the fear of want, humanity can
turn resolutely from that fear, seek
Cod. and contemplate mentally the
things of the Spirit" which are truly
substantial to spiritual sense. though
material sense perceiveS them not.
Then. refreshed by this communion
with God, from whose presence fear
is everlastingly hanished humanity
can turn to its daily tasks with heart
and mind clarified and entettalliinlg n :,
only good thoughtss will find it's daily
needs supplied
So through the whole list OF human
affIictions and disabilities, there is not
one which has not found its cure IN
Christian Science. God is ever ready
His mercy never faileth The benet-
cent activity of Christian Science IN
proving His .omnipotence Is attesten
bv a multitude of cases which no well
Informed person can any longer af-
ford 10 ignore.
In fact. SO great is the beneicent
activity of Christian Science TODAY. so
Widespread and widely felt. that it has
already become indispensa BILE To human
society. Bearing in mind what Chrls-
tian Science is accomplishing for the
mental. moral and physical improve
ment of mankind according to a host
of authenticated cases, and renember-
ing that this redemptive work has been
going on for more than forty years
and with All accelerating momentum,
who would be willing to dispense with
this great boon now? Who would de-
sire to return to the state of public
opinion which Mrs, Eddy found when
she discovered Christian Science?
A further reason for the gratitude
which Christian Science and its revered
Discoverer receive from mankind lies
in its spiritual Interpretation Of the
Bible. Mrs. Eddy describes her text