The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-04-30
Entitled
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE: THE
SCIENCE OF OMNlPOTENT
MIND.

A discussion of Christian Science
necessarily includes q grasp of what
Christian Science means by the term
God, since all its premises and con-
olusions are postulated on God as the
fundamental basis. Christian Science
accepts the revelation OF God to Moses,
- am that | am" the revelation to
Jesus, when he declared God is a
Spirit; and they that worship him
must worship him in spirit and in
truth" the revelation to Paul, when
he said zone God and Father OF ALL
who is above all, and through all and
in you ALL" Christian Science also
defines God as infinite Spirit, divine
Principle, Mind, Life, Truth, Love, and
teaches that omnisclenoe, omnipres-
ence, and omnipotence are inseparable
attributes of the one God, the Creator
of all that exists.
It is highly important to gain clear
definition of God in order to avoid
confusion Of thought Much of the
confusion OF critics OF Christian Sci
ence and much OF their criticism has
arisen from their failure to grasp the
meaning of the allness of infinite
Spirit land to follow that fundamental
premise to its logical conclusion Most
people will agree that God is all pow
erful; that He is ever-present; that
He "doeth according to his will in the
army of Heaven and among the in
habitants of the earth; and none can
stay his hand, or say unto him. What
doest thou?" 1t is one thing, however,
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tion that God is omnipotent; it is
quite another thing to follow that prop
osition to its logical conclusion. IT, in
addition to agreeing to the omnipO-
tence OF God a person should believe
that there is being called Satan who
wields power equal to, and in some
instances exceeding that of God, or
that there is a power called disease
which God is unable to overcome, am
sure you will agree with me that that
person does not actually believe in
the omnipotence of God.
Christian Science, however, is III
fleMbly logical. 1t accepts the omnip'
otence of God and all the conclusion
which follow from that premise Il is
self-evident that if God has all power
there cannot exist another power to
divide His kingdom with Him sThe
omnipotence OF God is eternal. God is
the one Supreme Ruler the same yes
terday, today, and forever"
Christ Jesus.
The great exponent OF the omnipo-
tence of God was Christ Jesus. By
reason of his sinless birth and SON
ship with the Father, he knew and ex
pressed the will Of God The religious
systems of his day claimed to teach
the true worship of God But these
systems produced no results to prove
their unity with the Father. Jesus not
only knew the power Of God-he
proved it by results. He proved that
what claimed to be real on the evil
dence of the cOrporeal senses was not
real but illusion. He reversed The
false claim that matter has life, intelli
gence, or power either to iniure or
bless mankind The false, carnal men
tality which ST. Paul declared was
"enmity against God" Jesus stripped
Of all pretence and characterized it as
"a liar and the father of it." He ney-
er taught that God created matter or
that God was in any way responsible
for sin. sickness, or death. On the
contrary he exposed the unreal basis
OF these errors and destroyed them
through the might of Mind.
Christ Jesus knew the Science of
Mind He grasped the tremendous
fact that God creates and governs all
that is real, and that His creation par
takes of His qualities and is like Him,
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John declared. Love cannot be the
creator of its opposlte,-evil BY no
logical process Of reasoning can we
make God the creator Of evif and at
the same time know Him as infinite
Spirit, a God who is Love. Because,
if God created evil then evil inheres
in the divine Mind and therefore must
+ be eternal If this conclusion should
be accepted, man could not over
come evil. because he would then op-
pose the divine viii. and would at
tempt TO overcome the indestructible
and immortal To assume that God
created evil would bring chaos into
the universe, and men-in their hope
less struggle against mortal ills
would become the victims Of grim des-
DdiI. BlI lHlS AelUbl ht "a h~- NpN
and His ideas alone exist Light and
darkness cannot dwell together.
Christ Jesus was never deceived by
appearances. He recognized only one
source of power. the divine Father,
and he declared that he did what he
saw the Father do He saw that evil
sin. and disease were contrary to the
nature Of God-were false. mortal con
cepts which prevented men from liv-
ing in harmony with the divine Mind.
wita .ha light of spiritual understand
ing he cast them out The three years
of his public ministry are full of ac-
counts of his healing works. L may
be asked. How did he do IT? Suppose
this building were in darkness; en-
electric button is pressed and the
room is flooded with light What be-
came of the darkness? It vanished
before the flood OF light Did it ever
have existence? No. Can that which
fades into nothingness ever have had
reality? Darkness has no reality; IL
is merely the supposed absence Of
light. No student ever studies dark
ness because there is nothing to study
II is merely a negation. In like man
ner Christ Jesus, tho greatest demon