Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-10-04
Christian Science, Or
DeIiverarc e from Evil.
Continued from mage iyel

| in heaven is perfect" What then is
| sin? 1t is any theory belief thought
or action which misrepreSfnts the like
ness Of God. Per contra. what is
| righteousness but right action, correct
| conduct truthful thinking. whereby
man expresses as Gods image the
beauty Of holiness
Christian Science deals successfully
with sin as with sickness, healing both
conditions of distress, overcoming
moral evil With spiritual good. Men
fall into sin because they seek for good
from a wrong basis. Christian Science
shows that what is good comes from
God primarily and that men need not
hurt nor destroy other men in order
to find good. 1t reveals the fact that
good comes according to inflexible
principle, changeless from age to age,
ever providing blessedness for the pare,
the honest, the chaste, the truthful, the
loving.
DeIiverance from Evil.
Should there remain any misconcep-
ton regarding the possible permanAnce
of sin and error. consider the petition
used universally by Christian to ex-
press their desire for divine guidance
The Master framed it first for the
disciples, who said to him: Teach us
to pray
If God were tempted with evil, or
knew evil, how could we expect from
God deliverance from it? If evil con-
stituted part of the divine knowledge
we should have to learn evil in know
ing God. Jesus taught that to know
the true God was @ife and peace If
this be so, and We may not doubt the
one who best proved his teachings
then we are delivered from evil and
find it to be neither actual nor real in
proportion as we follow the guidance
of Spirit. This the Psalmist understood
when he said: Thou art my God: Thy
Spirit is good: lead me in the way
Of .uprightness." Christian Science
teaches that the eternal principle un-
DERIVING all reality is good; hence all
forms of evil are transient and false
conceptions. existing because of recog-
milton. yet having no real being.
Faith.
Men hold theories regarding the res
direction of the Son of God and so do
not know the power Of his resurrec-
tion" (Phil. 3: 100; and they are I'M
certain regarding man, deriving him
from dust rather than mind, and so
are Insecure regarding immortality.
How reassuring and comforting, then,
is the message of Christian Science,
coming to restore to men true faith in
God faith in the risen Christ, faith in
enduring life.
The. universal practical effect of
Christian Science is to revive the faith
and quicken the understanding of man.
kind; but it goes further in also quick
ening that kind of love whereby man
expresses to his neighbor the likeness
q God. Since Christ Jesus healed the
sick and cast out evils, so of his fol-
n Kraar l.
he did they do also When Mrs. Eddy
associated her students for organized
effort she recognized this purpose and
organized church designed to COM
memorate the word and works of our
Master, which should reinstate print
tive Christianity and its lost element of
healing. Her elucidation of good, and
her teaching, both by preeept and ex-
ample, of the science whereby evil of
every kind is overcome by good. place
the leader of the Christian Science
movement in the forefront Of Christian
teachers, Her selfiess conservation en-
abled her to discover divine Science
and her lGve for humanity impelled her
10 dem6nstrat- IL in healing the sick
and to teach it,
The purpose of love is to make its
object iovable. Mrs. Eddy. the discov-
er=I and founder OF Christian Science
Expresses universaI kindness With
the evident desire thar all mankind
may be meaned rroln believing in evil
and taught 10 express mans true ma
ture III -the lifentss OF God who is
l-qVe. Those who know her oest know
the tfnstw orthiness of her motives. the
integrity of her aims, and the tireless
industry of her life. When others be-
come awake to influences BY which
they have been blessed they will an
preeiats and love the one who has been
the patient servant and friend of man
and Viii rise up and call her hIassAd.''