The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-06

consuming fear OF poverty. Through |
the clouds Of confused opinions we |
see the ideas of international arbi- |
tration and cooperation among the |
nations of the earth becoming more
fully established in thought. We see
such events as the Associated Adver-
Using Clubs of America taking for
their organizations motto, Truth"
The Rotary Club, an international or
ganization OF business men, makes
Service above Self" the keynote of
its activities.
Now, my friends, where do these
right ideas come from? All that vel
know anything about is what is called |
matter and mind, so it is from one
or the other that these ideas must
come. Matter can be divided into
some ninety chemical elements, about
twenty of which make up the human
body, though it's chief constituents
are water. salt, carbon, and oil. The
brain, often regarded as the source
of thought, is said to be from 70eo
to 800 water, about the same per-
centage of water that is in tomato
or a very soggy potato, / presume.
So We must decide whether these
ideas of industrial justice, honesty,
kindness, and SO on originate in mat
ter or in mind. Who would say that
an idea of international arbitration
came from pint of water mixed with
tablespoonful of salt with some oil
poured in, not matter how much that
combination was extended and de-
pressed up to make an imposing ap-
pearance.
These ideas, let us note, are not
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the same in essence today as they
were 1000 years ago, and the same
| in South Africa as in the United
States. They are always here, and
! everywhere, and no one has to do
! anything but think them in order to
! have them. Yet no human being 10
their source or cause. 1t is evident
/ that these ideas spring from a COM
mon source with which each one of
us has a fundamental mental rela-
/ tionship. Christian Science explains
that this fountain source of all right
ideas is Mind, intelligence, always
| here and everywhere, but never in
matter. This always-present Mind
/ is God, and is the source of all good
thoughts, Man is the agency through
which this Mind expresses itself Let
us remember then, that God is Mind,
our intelligence, our life, and that in
reality man is the individual express
ion of God. The only reason for man
to express God, good.
Evil From CarnaI Mind.
But, someone may say, there is
much about man that is not the ex
preston of real intelligence, or God.
There is much selfishness, hate, sin
and disease. Yes, that surely seems
to be so. How then are we to account
for the ungodly conditions with which
we are confronted? This is the ex-
PLANTATION. Good thoughts are the ex-
preston of God. Evil thoughts, fear,
sin, disease, discord, and so on are
the expression of a so-called evil
mind, the negative and opposite of
God, immoral Mind.
How To Destroy Evil.
Now, let us begin the consideration
of the method by which we apply
Christian Science to work the de-
struction of evil. We cannot lift
ourselves from the earth by our own
bootstraps. To raise ourselves from
the ground we need to get hold of
something higher than we are. So
to get free from evil and mortality
we must lay hold of something high
er, higher sense of life and exist
ence, and that sense is the spiritual
or God-app sense of being.
First, remember always that every
claim of evil must be reduced to a
mental argument. suggestion Of the
carnal, or mortal mind. 1.-THE basic
error is mortal mind" writes Mrs
Eddy on page 405 of Science and
Health. If we wish to be rid of a
tree that is sending out poisonous
odors we would not try to combat the
odor. We would search out the root
and strike there. If we wish to be
| rid of evil we do not bother too much