Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-09-28
:: A LECTURE On CHRISTIAN SCIENCE =

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manifests itself in myriad forms of
fear. pain, droughts, wars, storms and
death. Did God create or permit the
creation of this destructive element :?
No, God is good. He is not the au-
thor Of evil. Darkness is not farther
removed from light than evil from
good. Is evil then self-created? No!
God is the only creator and He is ON
nirotent. There cannot be two crea-
tors nor two creations, one good and
the other evil Now IL God did not
lcreate evil and it is not self created,
how does Christian Science account
for 1t? Christian Science clears up
the mysticism of evil and shows that
evil in whatsoever form it presents it.
self is a false claim, operating through
the five physical senses.
When we see even family the ON
impotence of God we never again fear
evil as we did before. Why? Because
we have dethroned it. Holding stead
lastly to the omnipotence of good evil
Immediately shrinks in size 1t is no
longer menacing. We see it for what
IT is, lie and liar, a projection of
false mortal belef-nothing more
When we find, for instance that dis
coura cement is trying ito enter our
consciousness and rob us of peace we
can at once turn on the intruder and
cast it out; and If we steadfastly shut
out even that one lie we have adj
lvanced many league in our march
lheavenward. So, likewise, we can de-
stroy fear, and when fear is destroyed
the problem of poverty, sin. disease,
ran hn quickly SniyoI
daily stand at the door of thought, re-
fusing admittance to every whispering
of evil and admitting only the ideas
of holiness and purity we are ap-
preaching that perfection of thought
which Jesus knew when he said, THE
kingdom of God is within YOU"
CREATION SPIRITUAL AND
PERFECT
! Now human knowledge claims that
man is mortal, that he is "of the earth,
early" and that death and the grave
are inevitable. But this is not true
in the presence of God and scientific
reasoning shows it's falsity. In the
science of omnipotent Mind or Chris
/ tan Science man is taught to reason
from the basis of perfect Spirit. Per-
feet Spirit can create >only perfect,
spiritual beings and there beings man
ifest qualities and partake of the ma
ture of Spirit. A good matchmaker
makes good watches; an artistic pi-
anomaker makes sweet-toned pianos;
SO, likewise, perfect Spirit creates
perfect ideas and these ideas are the
sons and daughters Of God. In the
| first chapter of Genesis, which so fully
describes the spiritual creation we
read, so God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he
him." In the last verse of the same
! chapter it says, God saw everything
that he had made and behold it was
very good" Man then is spiritual and
perfect. But the second chapter of
this same book describes the SUPPOSE
tituous creation of another man, the
Adam man, formed from the dust of
the ground. Manifestly, both these
accounts cannot be the record Of the
true creation, because if man is spr-
| itually created he cannot be dust
Icreated.
Christian Science makes clear that
there is a vast difference between man
the image and likeness of God-and
tho mortal, human concept called the
real man, and We have no more evil
dence that man is a creature of dust
! the Nltlliii OIL Olu aSe, decay ana deatn
than we have that the sun rises in the
east. The whole fabric of material
reasoning regarding mortal man is
based entirely on the evidence of the
five physical senses-evidence we
know to be misleading and erroneous.
On what evidence do we base the as
sumption that we are here in the
flesh? The evidence of the physical
| senses There pfhar aUi6anpa
Now what does the Christian Scient-
list do when confronted by evidence
that man is weak, diseased or sinful?
Knowing that all human ills originate
| in the Adam dream that man is NOR
| tai, a creature of the dust, the Chris
tan Scientist rises above the Adam
| dream and recognizes that God is
Love, as the apostle declared; that He
is omnipotent good; that His universe
| is harmonious, perfect eternal and
that man cannot be enchanted by false
conditions, but Is forever free, up
right, strong, forever conscious OF his
| liberty as a son of God.
CONTROL OF THE BODY
| But it may be asked Is 1t possible
that my body can be controlled and its
/ dieases healed through the power of
| omnipotent Mind? My friends. 1t is
not only possible. but it is the only
genuine healing of the body that was
ever accomplished. All diseases are
the result of diseased thoughts. How
absurd to attempt to heal the body by
drugs, which are inert. mindless, as
lif mindless matter could bridge the
gulf between matter and Spirit and
usurp the prerogative of God to heal
man of his diseases. The body is
merely the expression of mortal
tho ught and is a servant. not master.
and it manifests whatever state Of
thought the individual may entertain.
iIf we believe in and fear sickness, old
age, heat or cold, We may have these
wrong conditions manifested on the
BODY thus proving the words Of Solo
mon, AS he thinketh in his heart so
lis he" The remedy is to look away
from the body, refuse to accept its
false evidences of pain and disease !