Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-27
Sickness and Evil Come
from Ignorance of the Law

piled by Christ Jesus and his disciples
can do the same work today. Unless
this were true there would be no law,
no Science. no Principle ruling tho des-
tiny of man. 1t only remains for the
twentieth century man or woman to
have the understanding heart and 10
live the ul-selfed life of the first CEN
tury disciple; then he can know some-
what tls eVerzpresence, an-power and
eternal goodness of God and cease ac-
cording to his understanding to be
among those whom Satan hath
bound" Although the personal Jesus
is not with us today, the spirit of
Christ, surely, can still heal wherever
it appears IN purity and integrity to
those who are now oppressed OF the
devil" And the basic knowledge
which gives us authority and courage
to turn upon sickness in the same way
we have formerly warred against sin,
with spiritual resistance to its en-
croachments, is the understanding that
God did not make and does not up
hold either mental or physical sunerlhg
EVIL is THOUGHT MANIFESTED
The orthodox reasons for resignation
to evil are abandoned when we become
convinced that God does not create evil
in any of it's forms or sin or of bodily
suffering. The Scriptural admonttion
to resist the devil, and he will flee
from you" is applied by the Christian
Scientist not only to definite moral
temptations, but to every phase of hu-
man living that is unlike God. If God
did not create sickness ii is not only
our right but our duty to resist it. In
keeping relationship right with God we
are bound to the task of reducing to
nothing all suggestions of another pow
er than God. AS Christian Science re-
Veals q God too good to have invented
any form of sin or suffering and helps
us to grow out of our own inventions
of evil, it leads us away from any at
tempt to dominate evil with intellect
and into a spiritual knowledge of the
presence of the ont divine Mind, God,
that knows no evil. If evil is unknown
to God it follows logically that the
more divine Mind possesses our think
ing the less evil can possess us.
Did God know and send evil it would
very likely be true that the nearer we
draw to Him the nearer we would come
to a knowledge of evil. Our salvation,
however, lies in the truth that divine
Mind has no consciousness of evil and
that our reflection of Gods thoughts
dispossesses US of evil. What Gods
thoughts are like and how we may re-
fleet them is set forth in the Scrip
lures and in the Christian Science text
book. Evil is nothing but evil thoughts
manifested and sickness is only sick
thoughts manifested, we are taught.
And as the knowledge of divine think
ing puts out the mental habits of sin
full and sick thinking the individual
point of view constantly changes and
less and less are we oppressed of the
devil" because we are daily more gov
erned by God. Learning that God does
not send sickness we will get SILK less
often and remain sick not so long; for
we will refuse upon divine authority to
accept evil as any part of mans in
heritance. The lessons learned from
sickness will help us not to fall into it
again; we will cease to indulge its
causes-wrong thinking. And so prog
ress, in the light that Christian Science
throws upon the Scriptures, will event
ually redeem all who desire to know
God from the conseuuences-now so ap-
parent-of not knowing him.-Christian
Science Monitor.