The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1920-09-25

that pleasure, pain, happiness, ana
death inhere in matter and physi-
cality, the farther we are removed
from the ability to overcome these
errors by spiritual understanding. II
we harbor hate, resentment or jeal-
ousy, If we are filled with human
ambition, or glorify in intellectual
attainments, the light Of spirituality
wakes dim No man can heal the
sick by spiritual power, and retain
Friendship with materiality. "Ye
cannot serve God and mnmmon
was the declaration of him who was
beloved of His Father
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE DESTROYS
EVIL.
When we come in contact with
the material world about u.s. we are
confronted with the phenomena of
evil. We note its destructive charac-
ter II manifests itself in myriad
forms of fear, pain, droughts, wars
storms, and death. Where did this
unholy thing come from? Is it of
God or is it not? Scholastic theology
has attempted throughout the cen
lures to lead men into the belief
that God created evil; that in some
mysterious way, evil is good in the
making, a crude form of good, as it
were. But the fact is that God is
not the author of evil If God were
the author of evil, then God would
be God of hate instead of love, a
God of death instead OF life. Evil
| Is contrary to good and there is
nothing in all the infinitude of
Gods universe out of which evil
could be created. Darkness is not
farther removed from light than
evil is from good. Light does not
produce darkness, Life does not pro
| duce death. Confronted by these
facts, scholastic theology shifts its
ground and argues that God permit
ted evil to be self-created. That is
mere sophistry, becuase God, hav
| ing all power, would be just as re-
| sponsible if He permitted evil to be
selfcreated as if He created it di-
rect. Scholastic theologians, in
theorizing about evil, assume that
because God created all that was
made; He must have created evil
since evil has apparent substance
to the physical senses. These theolo-
gians have utterly failed to see that
the physical senses cannot interpret
God, that evil is without foundation,
has no reality and is merely
phenomenon of the human mind.
Christian Science clears up all
mysticism about evil, and shows that
evil under whatsoever forms it mas
querades, is a false claim, operating
through the five physical senses.
When we see even family the ON
nipotent goodness of Cod we can
never fear evil as we did before
Why? Because we have dethroned
it, Before the omnipOtence of God,
evil shrinks to its native nothing
ness. We see it for what it is,-a lie,
and a liar, "a murderer from the be
ginning as the Master declared, a
false projection of mortal belief
nothing more. Does not the Scrip
ture declare; There shall no evil
befall thee, neither shall any plague
come nigh thy dwelling. For he
shall give his angels charge over
thee, to keep thee in all thy ways?
Sometimes, in the face of the seem
ing activity of evil, men may be-
come fearful and despairing Ac-
cepting the scholastic lie about evil
being God-created, and therefore in
vincible, they may throw up their
hands and become it's unresisting
victims. But the genuine Christian
Scientist wakes strong when bat.
Ting With evil. He refuses to con
cede to it one lot of power, or
reality. He refuses to allow sin
gle suggestion of its presence or
power to enter his consciousness.
He knows that man has control OF
his own mentality through under
standing the Christ, and that when
we stand at the door of thought, re-
fusing admittance to every whisper
ing of evil and admitting only the
ideas of holiness and health, we
are approaching that perfection OF
thought which Jesus knew when he
said, "The Kingdom of God is within
you" But if we fail to prove that
evil is an illusion and fail to gain
the mastery over it, that failure is
due to the fact that we do not rely
wholly and radically on God. Some
people at times may listen to the
seductive argument that it is the
part of wisdom to be moderately
good and moderately wicked, but
such a course will never win the
victory over evil in the day of stress
and trial. The lukewarm saint never
healed a case of sickness in the past
and never will in the future. We
cannot accept physical sense evi-
dence. and expect to lay hold of the
divine power in the destruction of
evil The Apostle James declared as
prime requisite of Christian that
he keep himself unspotted from
the world To master evil, we must
be whoe-hearted, radically scientific |
Christians.
THE BODY CONTROLLED
THROUGH DIVINE
UNDERSTANDING
Experience has proved that the /
human mind cannot control the body /
harmoniously. The reason for this is