East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-10-31

and is putting on the new man of
Gods making.
EVILS LIE
We have already stated that, as ex-
planned in Christian Science, all evil,
sin, disease and mortality is but the
suppositions opposite of the spiritual
and true creation. To be sure, evils
universal lie is u big one.--but what
of that2 Can any one get nearer
truth or in any way change truth by
telling a big lie or by telling many lies,
or by putting all the lies together in
some form of organized faisity? Is
there any more truth in a million lies
than in one? Is the sum of a column
of zeroes more than zero or is n zero
as hig rs goose-egg any nearer
something than one us small as a pin
head? OF course not. The question
confronting each one of us is, How
much longer are we going to be do
minated and fooled by the seeming
reality of evils lie. expressed in sim
disease, mortality and material man?
DIVINE WISDOM REQUISITE
one does not find the warfare with
the world, the flesh, and all evil, an
easy task; but is there anything that
is worth while that is really easy?
Only the foolish man is content with
the sluGgard's case. Like n man in an
obstacle race. the student of Christian
Science finds plenty of things to occu-
py his attention, obstacles that cannot
be lodged but must be overcome i'm
only one way. He must keep to his
course. He cannot get ahead by dodg-
ing the obstacles however big they
seem. He must press on, knowing fun
well that he has the means at hand of
overcoming all obstacles if he is faith
ful and obedient
Evil does not yield its usurpcd au-
thurity simply because man desires to
be rid of it. Itmust be com bated in
telligently. Man must know some
thing of its nature and be wise enough
to detect its deceitful subtleties. bring
its lies from under cover. Until he is
wise, man cannot be good. How much
better Is it to get wisdom than gold!"
said solomon, and Jesus admonished
his followers to be as wise as serpents.
Only as man reflects God does he gain
for all wisdom is in God. Is
Indigenous to Mind, and is naturally
effected by Minds idea, man. Wis
dom SO gained transcends all mortal
opinion and human conjecture. II
enables man to Judge and act right
to avoid useless conflicts, ana
always TO meet evil with good. 1t
Enables him to distinguish between
he things of the moment and the
hings of eternity. Wisdom points the I
light way in every human situation
md eXalts Principle. which is God, to
10 ha lou in, lBfI
ife.
WATCHFTLNESS NEEDED.
Equipped with divine wisdom, man |
becomes a watchman at the door of (
Consciousness, alert and vigilant. He .
cruuniZes the thoughts that seek en-
rance there, separates just so far as
lie knows how the chaff from the
Wheat, the false from the true, the
Mortal from the immortal. and re-
rcts the evil and mortal as having no
light to enter Keeping his mind fill
d with goodness he finds to be the
est protection against all evil. Fear
encouragement, hatred, disease, dis
onesty, selfishness. lust. and all sin,
e strives to keep out of his thought,
or he knows that they are not of God
nd therefore do not properly belong
. His reflection, man. He agrees to
isagree with these thieves and rob
ers that would deprive him of happi-
ess and health and despoil his char
cter Whatsoever worketh abomi-
alton, or maketh a lie" as John puts {
. he seeks to exclude from his
lought. He stops tolerating evil in
stops talking about it
r dwelling upon it, but turns upon it
5 an enemy and drives it out with
loughts of Truth. He begins to real
g that man as God has made him is
1t the slave of evil in any form but
as dominion over it. Evil can have [
. moro power over man than over his
aker. since man is one with God.
UNCOVERING EVIL Il
Christian Science SHOWS man how to ,
fend himself against evil in every I
,rm. 1t shows that evil seeks to con- S
oil and reach man either through {
entail suggestion, that is, through '
III thoughts thrust into his consci- {
Isncss or by way Of the physical /
nses. In the last analysis both c
ethOds are suggestion. Evils subtle /
always is, as Science and
ealth explains, 1T is /" Cp. 250). It !
a
sin or sickness is a part Of his reaF
If. Man finds that. just because the I
dy says. you have a pain" he does d
It have to respond. Yes. | have a d
in and | am sick" or because mem s.
suggestion says, II hate that man" v
needs to accept such Il thought into &
consciousness. lie learns that a
csc claims Of evil are just a part Of r
lis lie about man. They are no part n
the one infinite Mind or its mani I,
station. and man has every reason a
the world to dispute them and deny o
cir legality. He learns to assert f.
IN all the authority Of God Himself @
lat is the fact OF being, namely, $
It man is in reality made by God, il
His likeness and idea, is divine i'm W
ality and character; that he cannot cI
sick because God never made him is
k. but made him perfect and so &C
ever maintains him; that all the H.
inns of dscordant and diseased ma 81
ial sense are contrary to God, good, HI
.rcfore a lie and incapable Of en- G
aching, infringing or imposing up
or in any way making "a condition &,
Gods creature. Because sickness al
rot phenomenon Of God he knows Nh