Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-18
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
TEACHES STUDENTS
NOT TO FEAR EVIL
MRS. EDDY FINDS SOLUTION
OF OLD PROBLEM
Founder of Faith Declares Sin Is
Unreal, to Have No Creator,
No Life Nor
Power

The problem Of evil, its supposed ori-
gin and nature, has occupied the men
tai activities Of mortals in their indui-
gence Of 1t, their fear of it, and their
attempted analysis of 1t since the be-
ginnlngs of history. Throughout the
Scriptures the stern commands of Mo-
ses, the warnings of the later prophets,
the victories of the Master and the ad-
monitions Of the apostles all bear wit
ness to the necessity for handling ana
destroying all Wrong-doing; and what
ever, in any philosophy, has had even
temporary human value, has been
meritorious only because of it's coinci-
dence with Scriptural teaching upon
the question of good and evil.
Thought turns spontaneously to the
Scriptures for authoritative statement
concerning evils destruction and may
find therein abundant direction for its
overthroWing. Every mortal, however,
who has been inclined to search the
Scriptures" has brought to his study
the bias of his former training and eX-
perience, and has read into the text
much of his own opinion and conclu-
sion The Scriptures as a whole were
almost closed to the generations which
followed the immediate disciples of the
Master. The spiritual meaning of the
because Of that the scientific destruc-
tion of evil has not been accomplished.
Evil Has No Creator
With the advent of Christian Science,
an attitude toward evil which has been
unknown to the world at large since
the days Of the early Christians has
reappeared. Evil has been declared by
Mrs Eddy to be unreal, to have no
! ind a N
to be reducible to nothing just as rapid
ly as the student of Christian Science
rises to make his own that Mind
which was also in Christ Jesus" and to
refuse to indulge, fear, or in any other
way believe in evil. This radical
change of viewpoint stirs the carnal
mind to resistance, but when the in
dividual perceives the logic Of Mrs
Eddys teaching his only remaining
wonder is that prophet has not soon
er risen to declare what the scriptures
hold concerning the unreality of evil
When individual thought is illumined
by Christian Science; the scriptures
from Genesis to Reveration, testify to
the reality, the power, the omnipresence
of God, and confirm Mrs. Eddy's dec
laration that evil 'is neither person,
place, nor thing, but is simply a be-
lief, an Illusion of material sense"
Then Truth itself is discerned shining
through the lives and works of the
Master the prophets who preceded him
and the disciples who followed him, and
reason Is satified by revelation. The
science of Christianity is revealed in
this age, and science includes both d
knowledge of principle and rules for
the demonstration of Principle. This
scientific demonstration of divine Prin-
ciple beSomes by necessity evils de-
stroyer, for where God, the Principle of
all which really exists, Is proved, evils
claims to existence and power are dis
proved.
Evil Is Mental
! No invention OF the human mind en-
tered into Christ Jesus teaching or
healing, nor enters into Christian Sci
ence Mind healing. The human mind
cannot save itself, but must be re-
deemed by that which is beyond and
above the taint Of mortality. The
Christ-Mind is the only remedy for
human sin and distress. Entering
thought to destroy all that Is carnal,
the Mind of Christ operates today in
the lives of all who. open their doors
to the message of scientific Chris
tianity. Mrs. Eddy's service to the
world is indeed manifold, for her teach
ing has not only revealed the allness
of evil, but it has begun the practice
of Truth which will compass evils an
initiation.
When Mrs. Eddy declares all evil to
be mental, not physical. she exposes,
by this analysis, the whole nature, rou-
tine and habit of evil and for this
one thing the entire world will some
day rise and call her blessed. The in
dividual who learns that the evil he
fears or allows is primarily matter
of evil thinking, is equipped for his
battle against evil, for by means of the
enlightened spiritual prayer which
Christian Science esta blshes and fos-
ters in the thoughts of it's every hon
est student, wrong thinking loses it's
hold and Christlike thinking grows to
be more and more the Spontaneous
mental habit. When evil is recognized
to be mental, 1t is brought by this dis
cernment into the arena where spir-
itual thinking may meet it face to face
and put it to fight. Christ Jesus said,
mot that which goeth into the mouth
def1leth a man; but that which cometh
out of the mouth, this defileth a man."
Surely that which expresses itself in a
word or a deed must first be a mental
impression or condition and it is in the
mental realm that the evil may be de-
tected and abolished. Put out of
thought it is necessarily put out of ac-
ton. Jesus says plainly in this same
discourse recorded by Matthew, "Those
things which proceed out of the mouth
come forth from the heart; and he
adds, for the comfort of all his fol-
lovers:
To Combat Evil
"Every plant which my heavenly Fa-
ther hath not planted shall be rooted
up" Facing the evil of ones own be-
lieving and steadfastly refusing it a
place in ones own thought-processe
whether that evil be sin or sickness.
begins this divinely guided and guard
ed uprooting, and Christian Science has
come into the world that this great sal
walton may be intelligently undertaken
and achieved,
Christian Science does not claim that
evil is unreal to the mortal condition
of thought, but it does teach that evil
is unreal to God now and always, and
that it will become unreal to the ind1-
vidual in the measure of his APPROACH
to God-like thinking. being and doing
The student of Christian Science learns
first that evil is unknown to God, and
then he finds, step by step through
conflicts with himself, through defeats
and through triumphs, that evil can
become unreal to him to the extent that
his Truth-lighted thought rejects all
belief in it. Refusing to, think, speak
or many way indulge evil he finds the
way of dominion over it. Pacifying
evil, ignoring it or temporarily staying
its temptations and animosities by no
means DESTROYS it. That one who re-
fuses to let evil use him is really dis