Los Angeles herald., 1910-05-22

All ethical teaching since time began
has concerned itself with the destruc-
tion of evil. Every system of religion
and philosophy the world has known
has attempted in one way and another
to deal with evil, and with more or
less success, according to the truth
and sincerity of its methods. Christian
Science undertakes the question of
handling evil and stands with single
purpose upon Scriptural teaching for
its power and authority. Christ Jesus
disposed of evil in his lawful and COM
plete destruction of the sin and sick
ness and death which confronted him,
as no other individual in history has
done; and his works surely prove him
the one "WayshOWer" who has laid
the foundation for the certain destruc-
tion of all error. All forms of Chris
t1an belief have held to Christ Jesus as
the Saviour, but these beliefs have been
so varied and so inadequate that no
mortal by means of any one of them,
has been able to remove human ills
from his experience as did the early
Disciples and this situation naturally
conVinces us that relgionists have
failed correctly to understand the basis
and the rule Of Jesus teaching, and
have only partially demolished evil be-
cause they have known only lin part
teaching of Christian Science a fuller
knowledge of God and His law than
they have had heretOfOre and they
are impressed with a mighty hope for
a whole deliverance from all that Op-
poses God as they live and obey what
Christian Science shows to them about
God. Gods man and Gods universe.
Christian Science deals with evil by
recognizing it to be always primarily
mental, and it reaches the root of the
matter by urging its adherent to at
tend first to the reformation of himself
and to set about the correction of his
own thought. Christian Science de-
clares that evil is of mental origin,
and has for its authority Jesus teach
ing that the sin Is first in the heart.
Evil must be mentally recognized, be-
lieYed in, feared or indulged, in order
to appear at all; and logically, to cast
out the fear of or indulgence in evil is
to begin at the right end for its de-
struction. He who ceases to hate
cannot do harm. He who can put aside
appetite and greed, cannot defraud his
brother. And Christian Science not
only helps you, through showing you
how and why evil has no more power
than you give it, thus to conquer your
self, but it goes farther and teaches
you that when confidence in an under
standable God lessons your fear of and
belief in evil, you are logically less
assailed by the evils, which threaten
you from what seems To be a source
outside yourself Not only can the
tempted or sin-burdened mortal aban-
don more easily his sin, by the help
of Christian Science, but you who fear
that evil may make unhappy the good
of earth can come out from such be
lief and see righteousness diVinely pro-
tected in the present hour wherever it
earns Gods blessing. Christian Science
demands that you cast from you all
belief that evil can operate in human
affairs, and that you cherish contin-
ually in your thinking the understand
ing that God, good, as divine Mind
is everywhere. has all-poWer, knows
only good and sends only good upon
humanity. Doing this you transform
your consciousness. Fear Of evil, and
consequently evil, will abate in your
experience, and "A happier, healthier
condition here on earth will be yours.
1t is true that much evil seems to
exist in the world over which you have