Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-04-27

to their occupancy of your thoughts"
Is not this indeed what the prophet
had in mind when he said of God.
Thou art of purer eyes than to behold
evil?"
AS Christian Scientists are some
times criticised for denying the reality
of the so-called devil and evil--let us
proceed with this reasoning All will
agree that God is good and that He
has all power, and that, being good;
and having all power, He has made
all things good and the record says
He pronounced all things as very
good. Then where does your evil orig
mate? God didn't create it. But, you
say, what about the devil Certainly
God didn't create a devil to undo or
make for naught the work of His own
| might. Is it not pretty clear to you,
my friends, that you cannot locate the
devil by any reasonable theory? You
cannot say he just happened to exist.
| You must conclude that there is one
| God and no devil. or else that God is
| not omnipotent and that there is an
other supreme power that is evil or
devil, and opposed to God, which
thought is unbelievable.
| But, you say, what will you do with
the Satan or devil of the Bible? What
did Jesus say of him: HE was muir
derer from the beginning and abode
not in the truth, because there is no
truth in him. When he speaketh a lie
he speaketh of his own. for he is a
liar, and the father OF. it." (John S;44.)
Is not this the weightiest testimony to
the falsityy the nothingness of the be-
| lief in any actual devil or source of
evil? Think what a world of fear,
sorrow, unrest, sickness suffering and
\ death this supposed Satan has brought
to humanity. 1t is strange how I'M
ready many of us are still, to deny him
and to claim and prove Gods allness
When we come to analyze the beliefs
and practices OF men for centuries we
! find that they have been mainly i'm
| PEELED by q fear of some power that
was superior to God. or could in some
way outwit God. This is witnessed
on every hand; for instance, men build
fortunes and amass large sums OF
money that no want or lack may come
to them or their families for genera
tons after their own lives. Surely
men would not bend every energy
work day and night drive sharp bar
gains. starve their employees for the
piling up of money, unless they at
tached value thereto. Nothing could
more clearly indicate their distrust in
Gods ability or willingness to pro-
vide their loved ones with all theii
needs. No fallacy has been more uni
versally exposed in the lives and ex-
lperiences OF men than this; for die
not Jesus say, Seek We first tho
kingdom of God and His righteous
ness and all these things will b.
added unto you" for our guidance If
this respect? Then, when men have
an ache or pain, do they seek th'
help of Him who is all powerful, o.
do they for the most part seek thu
aid OF material relief? Mute testi'
mony this to their distrust of God.
ability to overcome some power op'
posed to Him. But what a mournfu
Testimony is given in Bible history o.
King Asa, who sought material hell
for disease, for says the record: "Yc
in his disease he sought not to The
Lord, but to the physicians. And Asa
slept with his fathers"
| CHRISTIAN DCtente Is llylHS " neil
men to see and to understand that fol
levery need one should look to God, tc
the spiritual and not to the material
Yes, but it is only temporary, whereas
If one in Christian Science under.
islands the nothingness and powerless-
ness of any so-called sickness or evil
he is not only relieved, but is less
likely to experience the same false be-
lief again. If one knows that sick.
ness has no power he will cease to
fear it, and with the overcoming Of
fear, one of the great producers Of
disease will be gone. Christian Sci
ence teaches us that there is nothing
to fear, for God is all in all. One
cannot fear God or good Indeed
John said, perfect love casteth out
fear
The textbook, commonly called
Science and Health, was written by
Mrs Mary Baker Eddy, the discovers
of Christian Science, and was frs
published in 1875. 1t contains chapter
devoted to Genesis, and another to tn,
Apocalypse or Revelation of st. John
wherein is set forth the spiritual anc
proper Interpretation of the Bible, thus
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to the Scriptures" The last chapter
called Fruitage, which has been ad'
ded TO the earlier editions, is a series o
wonderful letters and testimonies from
men and women from widely separated
localities, testifying to having beer
healed of blindness, deafness, rheuma'
tism, Brights distase, tumor, dyspepsia
stomach trouble. cancer, tuberculosis
fevers and nearly every known disease
simply by reading the book, Science
and Health. The practical tribute to
this book is to be seen in the fact tina
it is found in nearly any public IL
brary, in every Christian Science
reading room and is valuable to an!
person who is interested. The booi
itself tells its own story better thar
can anyone for it. For me, it has il
; lumined the Bible, and revealed it al
n storehouse of profitable and life-giV
i, ing truth, from which can be draw
supply for every human emergency
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