The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-11-19
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CConttnusd from page three.
fts seeming existence only in the NOR
al, or, as St Paul names It, the car
nal mind. 1t Is belief IN the absence
OF good. AS. darkness IS the absence
OF light, so evil Is negative condi-
ton, not an entity To illustrate:
Suppose a person we're earnestly to
believe that two times two make Eve.
This belief would exist solely in the
consciousness Of the believer II.
would have no actual existepce, for,
the simple reason that two times two
do not make i've. and the belief chat
they do is untrue. hence nonexistent,
except as a false belief.
Evil Not Real
IF evil were real it would have to
be a quality or condition CT Truth.
and as Truth by its very nature is
fudestructible, evil would be indie
Istrucsible. the hope Of our salvation
our deHverance from ft-wOuId be
lost. and the mission OF our Savior
would be futile
But since evil has no existence in
Gods universe. it is @destruetible.; il
can be corrected, and We therefore
have nope of our salvation, anP4We
ale made sure that the Bible prom
ises will be fulfilled, that all evil will
be destroyed, and that when we come
, to know enough, we shall enter into
our heritage as the childreR Of Cod
when we see that evil has no9df-
vine Principle, no divine law, and
therefore no real power, we can see
that it has no divine authority. We,
can begin to realize our freedom from
bondage to its falsity. ai
EVIL Must BE Overcome.
Those who indulge in evil simply
prove that they believe in the reality
of evil and in its power. Only those
who cease SHINING demonstrate the
unrealf4y of evil and the supremacy
Of good over evil.
Jesus said of evil 1t is a liar and
the father of it, and then he pro
ceeded to solve the problem of evil
n the only way by which it can be
solved. namely. by denying and des-
troying. it. Why are we so unwilling
to believe and practice Jesus teach
ings? Christian Science enables US
Ito see that evil is a false mental
state, and that it is destroyed through
Christ, through divine Truth coming
to human consciousness.
Matter and Evil IESeparable.
Christian Science. also enables US
to see that evil andswhat is termed
matter are indissolubIy associated,
for we cannot conceive OF evil in any
form. whether as sin, misery, disease,
or mortality, that is not in some way
caused by. dependent upon. or asso-
GATED with matter. As they are thus
inseparabIy connected, being inter
dependent, it is manifest that we can
not become superior to the asserted
law of the one without becoming su-
pericr TO the Law OF the other. This
imm ediateIy raises the question as
to the nature of matter. question
which has puzzled the ages. Neither
philosophers, physical scientists, nor
rehgionists have been able to explain
it. They have neither understood it
nor known what to Do with it. Belief
in the stability of its laws has prae-
ticaIly interdicted the acceptance Of
the record of those wonderful dem
onstrations OF spiritual power com
monty called miracles since they are
altogether incomprehensibIe on a
matter basis. and this has been the
primal cause of the marked increase
Of the number of agnostics and in
{fdeIs among physical scientists and
other thoughtful people They can
not reconcile matter and spirit as they
understand them. and they therefore.
Icing to matter.
Mater a Form OF Energy.
The common belief regarding mat
ter is that it is an aggregation Of
units OF matter-substance or an in
destructible stun, as it is called, the
unit being the atom Recent dis
covery in physics and, chemistry
shows that this atom is composed Of
infnitesimal positive and negative
electrical corpuscles called electrons
or ions. In other words. it is now
believed by advanced physical scien=
lists TO be form of phenomenon. Of
energy. This discovery caused a rev.
olution in physics and chemistry. and
pecessftated the rewriting OF many
textbooks. 4
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