Arizona republican., 1917-04-17
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 Christian Science, writes Mrs Eddy in Science and Health with Key to the scriptures CD. 405l. com mands man to master the propensl- ties.-to hold hatred in aheyance with ldndness to conquer lust with chastl- tv. revenge with charity, and to over come deceit with honesty Revenge is the passion for retaliation, the de- sire to inflict an injury in return fol an injury believed to have been re- ceived. It is the old dictum of ''an eye for an eye, and a tooth for tocth'
 Christ Jesus established a system Of metanhs sics which entirely nullified his pernicious doctrine. This IS how he put the matter,-"Ye have heard that it hath been said. An eye fol an eye. and a tooth for q tooth; But | say unto vOI, that ye resist not evil The Master here definitely states that revenge is nor permissible in @ Christian. None ,lnew better than Jesus the traditions of the Jewish people fv, was tO them g thing punishable ny their laws and by God Himself But the punishment O. evil is not synonymous with revenge. Time and again are 70 be found in I the following: oh Lord Cod, t' whom vengeance belongeth; o God to whom Venge3 nee belongeth, show myself" If the Jew was unable tc ~vnnee hineself upon tEe evil door he felt certain that God would not fail to do that which the Jew considered necessary in the case. Christ Jesus looked 'lpun evil very different, from his coamtrymen; he never mini mixed the hideOus nature of sin or its naneful effects upon mankind; but al the same slime so clearly did ht understand the nature of God. the di- vine Principle. Love, that he could handle "eN'T' and overcome it too not through the passion of revenge but iV his spiritual understanding.
 Christian Science interprets the truth. oi being which Christ Jesus taught: and Christian Science. as Mrs eddy puts it shows how to conquer
 revenge with charity" The dis covery which Mrs. Eddy made abou' fifty years ago startled the Worl' then. as it startles any one nov Nho hears of it for the first time. Mrs Eddy discovered that evil, so-called is unreal. Her reasoning was sim alicity itself. God is infinite good there is no place in infinite good toE the opposite of good; therefore "eVli does moi exist in yhe divine Mind whcf , is ,he s;jme as saying that evil" has not a real existence. Evl $ false belief the supposition tha good is not omnipresent. If Chris Jesus did rot proclaim the unrealit! of evil in SO many words. he inferred it; all his deeds of healing, both of sickness and sir. prove this, hecaust he could net have destroyed anything that was real; he indeed once saiG that he had not come to destroy but to fulfill.
 Once admit that evil is unreal il ing of the allness of God, and tn problem of evil, as it is general, oalled, assumes an entirely differen aspect. Evil is seen to be only Q seeming power which ;s en6eavor- ine to usurp the place of the req power of good. Whenever this ;. acknowledged, invariably grea
 sense of relief is experienced. Mei begin to see how terribly they hay been deceived It dawns upon then that instead of heirg thing of sor
 row and suffering, as is too markedl, the case with many, life should be
 joy, full of happiness and health. Ant soon thereafter it strikes them tha the secret of the remedy of the world'' ills .lies in the application of tn own erroneous mentality What prompts the desire for re Venge? Primarily the belief that all