Bisbee daily review., 1919-02-18

his desires unselfish. In this way the connection 4si established between his consciousness and the law, and theI the law operates through him and iT his behalf. If he is an evil man, that is, if he thinks and lives enormously such wrong living and thinking sepa rate his consciousness from the law oi
 good, so that the law cannot then guide his footsteps or make every thing work together for good for him, F Source of Good and Evil
 Outside of Christian Science very flew people have ever reasoned out -the question to their own satisfaction as to where good and evil come from, and still fewer have even a satisfac- tory theory as to how good may be SC cured or evil avoided in actual human experience.
 All though the centuries there has been widespread belief that good ana evil come as the result of luck or chance, but this belief is necessarily incorrect Among all polytheists, or those who believe in many gods, there is the belief that some of the gods send good and that others send evil, and they seek to propitiate the latter by sacrifices and rites. believing that in this way alone they can escape from evil.
 Among monotheists, or those who believe there is but one God, there is the belief that the one God creates and sends both good and evil. This belief, howeyerSS involves, so many i'm possible contradictions that it has led actually to the belief in the existance of an evil being called devil" who is supposed to create and send evil. Thus to escape the belief that God sends both good and, evil, those who call themselves menotheists are really polytheists, for they actually believe in a God of good, and in an evil power, or devil. This in turn makes it ne cessary for them to determine in be- lief the spheret of activity and the re lative power Teach. SSace the Bible declares, however, that God is omni- potent, that is that He has all power, monOtheists have come generally to believe that such power as the devil is supposed to possess has been con ferred upon him by God, and that God permits the devil to send evil in the form of sickness, sorrow, sin, and death, to afflict and destroy human be- ings.
 Without going further into the mat ter than merely to state the case, it will thus be seen that there is much confusion of belief among Christians and other monotheists concerning the nature and origin of both good and evil and as to what causes their activity in human experience, and until this is corrected by positive knowledge it will be imposSibl to deal with the subject intelligently, fer to think about it ac- eurately. .
 Christian Science shows that all good comes from God through the op- eration of His laws, and that evil originates in the human carnal mind, which is ''enmity against God" Evil is not an entity. It has no kingdom and no king. It has no mind, no presence, and no laws The only power it can ever exercise iis what it derives from human belief in it, and human accep- tance of it.
 Since God is. infinite good He has knowledge of good and of nothing else. He could not possibly have know ledge or evil, for evil does not exist ln the spiritual universe, and it is real ly the only universe. The seeming existence of evil is in the carnaI mind. It has been well said that if everyone would quit shining there would be no more sin As human consciousness is evangelical by truth and love, sin dis appears.
 There is no such thing as an angry God waiting to Smite you for sin. for God has no knowledge of sin in any form His law is against sin; yet the punishment for or of sin is by sin, and when the sin is destroyed and put away out of the human mind. the pun ishment stopsg but as long as the sin remains 1t w1ll whip and punish the sinner.
 mus the forgiveness of sin consists in the destruction of sin, and the sin exists nowhere but in the carnal hal- man mind The belief that God par dons sin merely because you ask Him to do so, without turning from the sin yourself and putting it away from you. IS foolish self-deception.
 People ask how God can destroy sin when He knows nothing of sin and ooes not even know that it exists. The answer Is plain. He destroys it just as the sun destroys the darkness winch It never sees. When the light the darkness disappears. Good and evil cannot mingle any more than light and darkness can mingle. One vanlsheS before the other
 
 Man
 Sooner or later everyone must learn the truth about man. When one asks himset who is man? what is he?I where does he. come from is he spirit ual, or Is he material? many channels TOT thought are opened. Upon the cor rect answer to these questions will depend the solution of every human problem.
 Everyone has read the two differ ing accounts of creation in the Bible. In the first chapter of Genesis we are told that God created man in His own image after His own likeness, and that He made him good. In the sec, ohd chapter of Genesis. however, We Frrnn n.