The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-11-06

the divine Mind. It is available only a: Mind. While the ordinary physician says that he believes in the intelligent use O. drugs or other material remedies, w say and prove that we know how to rely upon divine intelligence itself. Where i: the real thinker who can doubt that the latter system is far more scientific thar the former?
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DESTROYS
 EVIL AND THIS EXPLAINS IT
 Jesus illustrated the way of divine and Christian Science ex- plains his way of healing, and shows that it was not only good, but supreme ly scientific also. By considering uni versally admitted facts one may see that the conclusions of Christian Science in this and other respects are logically drawn. We exist at this mo- ment, and yet our existence is not self explanatory nor entirely satisfactory We are constantly endeavoring to i'm prove 1t, but we could not exist at all if there were no cause for existence Cause, in the universe, must be admit ted by any thinker, for no one could claim that he is self-created. Further more, effects in the universe are in- and immeasurable. Even our limited powers of observation teach us that much i
 Now, immeasurable and innumerable effects are infinite effects, which fact not only implies, but actually requires an infinite Cause An infinite Cause Is without beginning or end, therefore not only religionists, but all scientists of whatsoever nature. and all philosophers or schools however divided, have agreed upon at least one fact, and that is that the first great Cause, being nec- essarily self existent, Is eternal.
 The moment that one admits that God is eternal, in that same moment he must admit that disease and sin could never have any being in God, for eter- nality cannot include that which is de- structive or destructible.
 The discoverer and founder of Chris- tan Science was the greatest of all modern thinkers along purely meta physical and strictly philosophical lines She was not only clear but fearlessly When other thinkers came face to face with the conflict between the ideals of life which point to the spiritual facts of being. and the ma- terial everyday experiences which con- fict with such ideals, they yielded their Ideals to the evidence of the material senses. In the light of pure reason it
 W they evolved contra dictory theories of religion and phil osophy. Mary Baker Eddy, on the oth- CT hand, saw that spiritual facts, though contrary to the evidence of the material senses, and though humanly idealistic, relate most nearly to the basic principle and boundless power which men call God. Consequently her scientific system of healing disease and overcoming sin requires that divine facts when discerned shall be main- tained even in the face of any and all material evidence that appears to be contrary to them. This method is in accordance with the methods of the Investigators of the world, al- though it was never adopted by meta or philosophers prior to her time. By means of this method, original with her. divine metaphysics became a practical science.
 In accounting for evil she shows in her books that human existence, while self-evident, is not elf-explanatory. It indicates God, but never represents Him. The mistake of ordinary systems or education is to suppose that it does
 No other system has ever satisfac- torily explained evil. When Mrs. Eddy discovered Christian Science and wrote
 
 brought to light the fact that the very nature of evil Is erroneous, and that to truth. which lis the intelligence of im- mortal Mind' Science and Health, D. 2S2) error must be unreal. Here you ind all evil frankly, fully and finally explained, and the advantage of such explanation Is that by means of it sin and disease are destroyed
 Search all philosophy and you will find no explanation of evil that is other than theoretical and made upon the supposition that evil is as real as good Go to medical science and you will never find disease explained otherwise than as though it were real, with the result of increased fear of and lia- bility to disease Then turn to the com paratively short history (about 50 years) of Christian Science. On the one side there is an ever-increasing fear of disease and no decreasing tendency to sin in that greater part of the hu- man race which is educated to believe in the naturalness, reality and inevita- bleness of both. On the other the com few people who have con- sidered and accepted the unquestiona- ble fact that God could not be the au- thor of such destructive clements as sin and disease, and who have con
 
 lives according to this, the highest and only correct standpoint, have healed thousands of cases of disease that had always been considered incurable, and reformed thousands of people who had been considered hopeless sinners. In- deed they have accomplished so much good for themselves and others throug,, some understanding of Christian Science as to excite not only the curi- osity but the interest of the civilized world.
 Whatever may be the visible evil dence to the contrary. the fact is that the unreality of evil is the only ex- planation of it that has ever done any good. It is not a theory. but an abso- lute fact. as the history of Christian Science practice amply proves, and while the object of stating this fact is redemptive rather than controversial nevertheless, like any other absolute fact. it must be perceived before it can be demonstrated, hence it must be ex- plained. even though such explanation chance to arouse opposition
 Furthermore, it may as well be said here that any questions which may occur to you or any other person as to why evil seems to exist, or how if is that. having no reality. 1t has an ap pearance of reality, or how it is that 1 1 1taan n-n f- l.A