, 1922-03-29

great sculptor. Michael Angelo,
Tho moro tho marble wastes
The more the image grove"
HOW To DESTROY EVIL.
Now. let US begin the Confederation
OF the method by which we appi,
Christian Science to work the destruc
Gon Of evil We cannot lift ourselve.
from h earth by our own bootstraps
To raise ourselves from the ground VIC
need to get hold OF something higher
than we are. So to get free from evil
and mortality we must lay hold OF
something higher. a higher sense oil
life and existence. and that sense Is
the spiritual or God-appointcd sense
of being.
First. remember always that every
claim of evil must DO reduced TO ?
mental argument, a suggestion OF the
carnal. or mortal mind. Tho basic err
ror Is mortal mind" writes Mrs. Eddy
on page 4o5 of Science and Health. II
we wish TO DO lid OF a tree that is
sending out poisonous doors we would
not try to combat tho odor We would
search out tho root and strike there.
II we wish to be rid of evl We do no
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arguments. we go to the root of IL all
and strike there. II then we reduce
the evil that confronts us to n mental
argument with the carnal mind as its
cause. what next? How do We get
rid Of this cause7 How do
we get rid OF a shadow. A shadow
is but the absence of light To get rid
of 1t we let in thu light. Then there
is no shadow. Christian Science shows
that avn is not tho fact OF existence,
only a shadow thought. tho opposite
of tho fact. So in place of n mistaken
evil sense, we turn to God. who is
light. or intelligence, and realize tina,
He is the only Mind. the only Truth,
the only Life. and the only Love: tha,
there is 20 other Mind. and that the
supposed evil mind is not Mind, sub
stance, or reality and cannot infu
ence. affect. or control God or HI,
harmonious creation. including man
Now. secondly. please note this. The
only way we destroy n lie is by ceas
ing to believe in 1t. Likewise we de
stroy evil as we cease to believe In
it. We only cas- to believe in It n.
we realize the substantially of goot
and the presence and the power o.
Cod We only realize the presence nt
power OF God as we strive homer rs
moment. ray by day. ,-s. thcuc1 l.,
thought, to think the thoughts of God
Rays Of light dispiace darkness. drops
of water put out fire. thoughts of sod
good. nulIify evil. There is no othei
way.
Christian Science shows evil to b,
nothing but a negative state Of
thought 1t is like Ignorance. w,
can all see hat there is no such thinI
in reality as Ignorance. Ignorance Il
but a negative state OF thought, tn,
absence of something. and it disap
pears instantly when intelligence ap
pears. So every phase of evil Is Blu
a phase OF spiritual ignorance. an alb
sence of the understanding of good
tho affirmative, spiritual Truth of be
ing. and IT disappears before the Iighi
of spiritual intelligence as the dark
ness fees before the dawn.
In Porto Rico when the moon is full
the shadows OF he palm trees seem Sc
black and substantial that a strange
will step over them. as he would owe
some real object. Yet they are never
anything but substanceiess shadows
What the stranger needs to do is I,
change his sense about them. II,
must learn that they are but shadow,
n wholly unable to hinder his prog
ress- So it is with tho shadows O
evil belief. They are not substantial
and cannot hinder our progress wher
We learn of their negative nature