Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-16
LOGICAL TRUTH
CREED'S DEMAND
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE TEACHES
DISTINCTION
THAT WHICH is WRONG HAS NO
REAL FOUNDATION
Creator Is Governing Power in Man
and Works at All Times fer
That Which Is
Good

letting Truth or letting error govern
their thoughts and actions. Much OF
this is an unconscious yielding to mo-
tive, impulse, or habit; again, some OF
it is an intelligent application of integ-
rity, industry and right desire to the
conditions of daily affairs. But very
little of the thought and conduct OF
men at large is ordered by an intelll-
gent grasp Of the demands of God; and
it is only when Christian Science estab-
fishes the absolute distinction between
good and evil in thought and act that
the full demand of the law of God, in
the government of man, is seen.
The teaching OF Christian Science sets
before mortals logical, demonstrable
statement of the truth about God and
His creation. 1t unfolds to human un-
derstanding the law of God and the
process by which this law operates IN
human thought to uncover and TO de-
stroy evil. 1t reveals to man that
everything in the universe is governed
by specific and adequate law, law en-
tireIy equal to sustaining and perpetu-
ating All that it governs; that this law
is of God, and Godlike, and therefore IS
entirely good in action and in effect;
that its government not only uphoIds
all that is good, but in so doing leaves
without origin, foundation or legitimate
existence all that is not good, and that
this divine law is in reality all that has
power to govern man.
This basic teaching of Christian Sci
ence-that God is the only power, and
that good, therefore, is the only power,
for God is goods fully in accord with
the theories of the churches of all gen
erations Because the churches depend
alpon the Scriptures for their teaching.
they accept the Scriptural statement
that God is omnipotent; yet their prac-
tice has departed from their ideal and
even their doctrines assert the power
ana reality of evil. 1t is to redeem
Christian practice and 10 make II con
sistent with basic Christian teaching
that Christian Science has come into
the world; and its first effort Ill TINS
is TO call upon men actually to prove
God omnipotent-goOd Supreme-ln
daily experience.
The work of the Christian Scientist,
then, is to learn that God, good Is the
governing power in his own Thought
and life and then to let this divine
government rule him at all times and
in all situations In order to do this,
he has got to loose himself from the
wrong impulses, fears, moods, temp
tations and ignorant beliefs which have
heretofore swayed him; he has got to
surrender his lifetime of inertia and
awaken to a spiritual understanding,
which is directly destructive to his be-
lief in evil; and he must watch with pa
thence all his thoughts and acts. TO
see that good does prevail in all mat
tcrs great or small The Christian
Science textbook, spiritually interpret
ing the Scriptures, makes plain the ma
ture of God, and shows mortals how
they may begin to express the presence
of God in their own lives. Revealing
first what God is, it shows, in logical
order, what the spiritual man is; and
then calls upon men to put off NOR
tality and to let this spiritual manhood
shine forth in them.
1t is evident that the good a man
knows must he put to good use. So
the understanding of Gods government
must be actively employed in mems
thoughts to neutralize the fear that evil
can govern. If the belief in evil exists
in the mind of any mortal,-and where
is the mortal who does not in some
measure believe it?-then the good he
knows has, aside from its own actual
ity, a specific purpose, and that purpose
is the detection and destruction of the
evil believing The man who seeks
Christian Science is beset with fear of
ulSedS6, OI pON6Ilys Oh llSetl l-elCIlGs SUI
row, disaster. loss, failure of every
kind; and the faith in good which en-
ters his heart through the study of
Christian Science has for its mission
the overthrow of all this Wrong-think-
ing. He has believed that trouble can
govern him,-tempt him, betray him,
burden him. He must now begin to
know that good alone has really the
mower to govern him, for the omnipO
tnH ic tho nJ11xr gatngf a1, that
exists. He has believed evil can rule
him, and he has had in his experience
the result of his belief CeaSiug to be-
lieVe that evil is power and gaining a
scientific knowledge Of good, evil no
longer determines in any way his
routine or his destiny. Evil may threat
en-, may suggest, may invite indulgence.
may argue for itself with much plausi-
bility, but to the man who understands
that God alone is power, evil cannot
perform what it threatens; it cannot
terrify, persuade, or control. Christian
Science reveals the power to be all on
one side; and so fast as men know this
and follow where this knowledge leads
them, the fear of evil ceases to exer-
else influence upon them.
The man who is literally tied up in
evil conditions may feel the positive
statement of Christian Science concern
ing the powerlessness of evil to be un-
provable; but to him it may be said
that the Christian Scientists count not
themselves ito have apprehended' en-
tirely. this great question, and that
they are only beginning to prove the
truth of it, Even in their first efforts,
however, the clamps of fear and sin
and disease are being loosed for them
and the life giving. joy-giVing. health
giving government of God is being
manifest somewhat in their lives and
experiences. And the man who hears
today for the first time. as Christian
Science declares it, that good is su-
preme and that evil has i'm the sight Of
God. no power at all. can begin today
to prove evil less formidable in his own
sight. and little by little, through faith
full adherence to his confidence in Gods
government, come into a better man
hood, better morals, better health, than
he ever knew when evil seemed to him
power. Christian Science shows its stu
dents how to let God, divine Mind, gov
ern all their thoughts, and as this men
tai process goes on day by day, and Ia
the extent it proceeds, the supposed
governing power Of evil must naturally
and logically lessen and disappear. so
does Christian Science save its follower
from sin and suffering Christian Sci
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