The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-06-24

Christ Jesus that Mind which is God.
The divine Mind does not operate
through suggestion nor human will.
There Is no need for 1t to be- trans.
ferred through suggestion. from one
person to another, because IL is already
everywhere present. And what Is more,
we 90 not gain the understanding Of
that Mind through sugges ton The di.
vine Mind reveals itself to the human
consciousness through the Christ law
of Love and not through the cold con.
ventionalities of suggestion. No one
would teach child mathematics
through vibratory suggestion. The
very definition OF education is from the
Latin e, meaning from, plus ducere
to lead,-to lead from or to draw out.
1t is recognized that the child is netur.
ally able to comprehend mathematics.
ano the purpose of the teacher is mere
ly to draw out or develop what is al
ready in the consciousness of the child
This is accomplished not by vibratory
suggestion but by scientific, right rea-
soning, logically developed through
mathematical law. So it is that man
Is recognized to be inherently spiritual
and he acquaints himself with the
divine nature through that same sci
en;itic, right reas oning, logically devel-
oped through obedience to the divine
law He recognizes the great fact that,
inasmuCh as there is but one God,
there Is but one Mind-the Mino which
is God There are not two kinds of
goodness; there are not two kinds of
honesty; there is one goodness, one
honesty, one Mind, and that is the
Mind which is God,-abs olutely posi-
tive, spiritual intelligence,-and the
Christian Scientist employs only that
Mind (which was also n Christ Jesus"
1t is omnipresent, supreme, infinite
good
"oVercome Evil With Good
. When we observe the Scriptural en-
ioinmen. that says, be not overcome
of evil, but overcome evi! with good"
there are those who say, well if good
will overcome evil, so will evil over
come good" This, however, is not
true, for the reason that GOOD and evil
are not alike. They bear precisely the
same relation to one another as do
intelligence and non-intelligence, as
do the positive and negative, as do
light and darkness. Intelligence will
destroy non-intelligence, but non-in.
telligence can never destroy intelli-
gence. So it is that lighi destroys
darkness, but darkness cannot destroy
light,-cannot so much as put out a
lighted candle,-and it matters not
whether room has been maintained
In darkness for five minutes or fifty
years, the light will dispel the dark
ness with the same ease. In like man.
ner it matters not whether an individ-
ual has been suffering from sickness
and sorrow five minutes or fifty years,
the light of spiritual intelligence will
dispel them with the same ease. It
will illuminate thought to conscious
strength in the good to rule out evil.
Sin Not of God.
Jesus employed the term sin in over
one hundred places in the four Gospels,
and in each case the corresponding
word in the Greek manuscripts is ha-
martha. The first meaning imputed to
this word hGmartia is ito miss the
mark" as in the throwing of a spear
The Greeks were much given to the
enjoyment of athletic games, ana if
one were to hurl a spear and miss the
mark he committed hamartia,-the
same word which Jesus employed for
sin. So it is with archery. When
man pulls his bow and shoots his ar
row, if he fails to hit the mark he has
u dUSB IG6Seu the laws Ol archery OT
committed hamartia. So it is that sin
is the transgression # the divine law.
What is it that would make man
transgress the laws of archery? Is it
not his ignorance or lack of practice?
And what is sin but the result of
ignorance or disobedience of the divine
law? No educated person could trans
gress the simple law that two ana two
are four, for he not only understands
1t but practises it, and he will tell the
child that his errors are not in the
mathematical law nor of that law; that
mathematical law knows absolutely
nothing of mistakes but heals them
just the same So it is that sin is
not in the divine law nor of the divine
law. 1t is simply the result of mans
transgression of the law through igno-
rance, fear or wilfulness. Therefore
we conclude that God never visited
man with sin. God not only is not
the author of sin, but He never af-