The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1916-10-21

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y the movement of material bodies wer
y regulated and governed by this ma
" terial law, so Mrs. Eddy discovere
= the Principle that governs the entir
! universe, including every detail j
t the lives of men. That supreme, crea
! tive, governing, omnipresent Mind o
: Principle, is God, the only Canse, TIL
/ only Creator, the only Ruler OF mai
and the universe.
l When we watch water flowing owe
the land we see that without hcsita
t ton or delay it always selects the Low
) places. All fresh water is continual.
striving to reach the sea, where i
will be at rest. In choosing its course
it measures the topography of the
ground more accurately and mori
quickly than the engineer could dt
with his instruments. No embodied
mind is present to tell it where to go
but there is an unerring, invisible law
Everywhere present directing its
movement, and always guiding it in
the true course.
If such perfect law exists to guide
the water in it's movement toward the
sea, how much more certain it is that
equally perfect spiritual law exists to
guide the footsteps of tired and dis
couraged human beings out of the
wilderness of sickness, failure and sin
into the kingdom of peace.
The Bible tells us that such a law
exists and is operating for our benefit.
In Psalm xxxvii. 23 we read, "The
steps of a good man are ordered by
the Lord" Again, in Romans viii. %,
"All things wor ktogether for good to
them that love God" and in Romans,
viii. 2, For the law of the spirit of
life in Christ Jesus hath made me
free from the law of sin and DEATH"
What Brings Good or Evil Into
Human Experience
Outside of Christian Science very
few people have ever reasoned out the
question to their own satisfaction as
to where good and evil come from,
and still fewer have even a salts
factory theory as to how good may
be secured or evil avoided in actual
human experience.
All through the centuries there has
been a widespread belief that good
and evil come as the result of luck
or chance, but this belief is necessar-
lily incorrect.
Among all polytheists, or those who
believe in many gods, there is the be-
lief that some of the gods send good
and that others send evil, and they
to propitiate the latter by sacri-
ices and rites, believing that in this
way alone they a escape from evil.
Among monotheists, or those who be-
there is but one God, there is
the belief that the one God creates
and sends both good and evil. This be-
lief, however, involves SO many i'm
possible contradictions that it has led
actually to the belief in the existence
an evil being called devil" who is !
supposed to create and send evil. Thus
% escape the belief that God sends
10Th good and evil, those who call
themselves m%onotheists are really |
'olytheists, for they actually believe !
n a God of good, and in an evil pow {
r., or devil. This in turn makes it {
Necessary for them to determine in {
'ellef the sphere of activity and the {
power of each. Since the {
'1ble declares, however, that God is {
that is. that He has all l
over, monotheists have come gener- &
lily to believe that such power as '
he devil is supposed to possess has
cen conferred upon him by God, and G
hat God permits the devil to send t
vii in the form of sickness, sin, and t
cath, to afflict and destroy human be- h
lgs. n
Without going further into the mat c
tina merely to state the case, it q
i'll thus be seen that there is much Il
0nfl1C.nn IF hoJiof NOV Cl,r.. =,
Id other mOnOtheists concerning the n
allure and origin of both good and n
VII and as to what causes their activ- d
y IN human experience, and until this
corrected by positive knowledge it
III be impossible to deal with the t,
lbJect intelligently, or to think about C
accurately. b,
Christian Science shows that all NJ
)od comes to man from God through tt
e operation of His laws, and that IL
II originates in the human carnal Ii
IND, which is "enmity against God" Jt
vii is not an entity. 1t has no king tn
I'm n no king. 1t has no mind, no Je
~resence, and no laws. The only jo
'wer 1t a ever exercise is what it w
r1ves from human belief in it, and hi
man acceptance of it. ar
olHce GOQ is infinite good He has Sa
loWledge of good and of nothing else. III
could not possibly have knowledge tt
evil, for evil does not exist in the HI
ritual universe, and only exists in on
e carnal mind. 1t has been well m.
id that if every one would quit sin
there would be no more sin. AS w;
consciousness is evangelical Sc
truth and love, sin disappears. tn,
mere is no such thing as an angry wi
d waiting to smite you for sin, for si(
q has no knowledge of sin in any hi
m. Hence it follows that people are trl
t punished for sin,-they are pun- all
ed by sin, and when the sin is de- sts
Dyed and put away out of the hum OF
mind, the punishment stops. but as Oh
g as the sin remains it will whip MI
d punish the sinner. dic
Thus the forgiveness of sin con- the
in the destruction of sin, and the pre-
exists nowhere but IN the carnal in
nan mind. The belief that God TIL
'dons sin merely because you ask COZ
II to do so, without turning from the
sin yourself and putting it away er
. you, is foolish self-deception. ]
'eople ask how God can destroy sin Jes