Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-10-14

/ would not fight for it, vote for it. nor
| think in favor of it as thing real or
| legitimate. We have awakened to its
unreality So every one of us must
mentally awaken to the unreality of
] every evil contempt, all sin and disease
and cast it out of our consciousness.
and all for the very best of reasons.
Not one of these concepts is of God. Do
you suppose that God is any more on
the side of cancer or influenza or
| sinful appetite than He is on the side
of the liquor traffic or the rule of
autocracy? Men have discerned in
some measure their right and ability
to resist and overthrow the false
claims of evil to rule them politically.
| They are beginning to see and to use
| their greater right and ability to re-
sist and overthrow the attempts of
evil to rule them bodily and men
| tally.
There are still many of us, however.
who would be quite content to find a
| shady nook in hell and stay there.
We have yet to discover that there is
no shade nor peace in materiality. Our
property rights in hell must be aband-
| oned, and the man who is keeping his
/
to change his position.
SEPARATING EVIL FROM MAN
Evil in some of it's forms, such as
| evil habits, appetites, sickness, bad
| business practices, and so on, has be-
| come so persistent in many an in
| dividual experience that il mas seemed
| to be welded into our very nature and
to be part of us. How to be rid of
it is a question that many have not
| been able to answer
| An object held close to the eye, even
though it be no larger than a feather.
may seem as big as mountain. The
| thing to do in order to Judge it rightly
is to get it separated from you so that
you may see what it's real nature is.
Men have been mentally holding evil
in various phases so close to them
selves, so close to their sense of self
hood, that they have failed to discern
its real nature. 1t has often seemed
as big as mountain, though really it
is no more than a feather Christian
Science inserts a mental wedge be-
| tween man and his concept of evil.
and little by little separates it from
L
so that he can see it for what it is
a false claim about his true being
and handle it on that basis. AS with
every enemy, something must be
known of the methods and modes of
| evil before it can be combated sue
| cessfully. The last great offensive of
our enemies in the recent war was
| checked, the initiative wrested from
L han %, H. l.. l.
day when we knew exactly their plans
or attack and so were prepared to
meet them. 1t is this valuable in
formation that Christian Science is
giving to mankind with regard to the
common enemy-the evil mind.
Let us suppose that we have here
photograph. On it is record. We
| start the machine and this is what we
hear, This is the record of a mortals
thoughts on an autumn morning in
1918. 1.-THE record begins.l The health
officer says that the epidemic is COM
ing this way and will strike today.
wonder who told him. The paper says
1t is getting pretty bad in the state
next to us. If it comes here l wonder
II L will get sick. Those germs are
funny creatures million on the end
OF needle they say Not much on
size but big on appetite it seems. 1
don't feel so very well this morning
| My head and throat don't seem lust
right. What would happen to the fam
| lily and the business if l should get it
The newspaper gave four symptoms
L seem to have three. l believe 1 am
getting feverish, that's the fourth.
half believe I'm getting it. Yes, 1 feel
sure I'm getting it. / know | have it,
Johnnie, run for the DOCTOR
Now my friends remember this is
but photograph record. Here is
mechanical instrument giving out GER
tain sounds. They do not brighten US
because we see very plainly that there
is nothing in what this material mech
anism does that we need fear. It is
but matter talking Move the sound
making instrument right up to the ear
and the same reasons make us alb
solutely fearless of what it saws. #
simply isn't us and we know it. Sup
| pose 1t was possible to make it, so
small it would go into the ear and vet
keep on talking the same or similar
words. Still you would not accept it
as your thinking, would you? IT
| would still remain separate and apart
"a lifeless voice. The question now
comes, did those thoughts really be-
| long TO and constitute a part of the
seITnood or that man who voiced them
as his own? Christian Science saws
NO. 1t was evil suggestion parading
itself as the selfhood of man and he
accepted 1t, that it was deceived by il.
IL was phase of the spirit of evil
| seeking to substitute itself for the
spirit or consciousness of good which
is mans normal state of mind.
| what should he do, do you ask?
just th1s-he should separate the w.
ing evil argument from his sense of
sel1hood as the expression of God.
| he should know that the evil voice
talking on the inside is no more a
part OF his real being than the matter
voice on the photograph outside. They
are made OF the Self-same stuff that
dreams are made of. When such ar
| guments suggest themselves he men
tally asserts the affirmative facts of
| spiritual manhood in some such Way
as thlS, i repudiate and deny these W.
ing suggestions of evil, for man is not
susceptible to discord or disease. God
| the Infinite good, Mind, is the source
and fountain of my life. / do not live
IN or by material sense or material
| law, Tor my true being is spiritual. In
coos creation good is supreme and
the attempts of evil to operate through
tnese arguments of false material self
mood, contagion, and infection cannot
tnwart or change the supremacy of
the law and the life that is God ex-
pressed by man. The Bible saws that
Zoo is mans salvation and that no
plague shall come nigh his dwelling.
recognize and accept these state
ments as statements of the protective
power OF spiritual law, applicable to
me here and now, and l deny the
claim OF any material law to super
sede or dlsplace Gods law Knowing
God to be infinite good. unlimited Love
l nave no fear of evil Divine Love