The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-29
EVIL DOES NOT
EXIST IN LIFE,
SAYS LECTURER
Christian Science Board
Member Speaks at
Tabernacle.

the Cadle Tabernacle Thursday
night under the auspices Of the
local Second Church Of Christ,
Scientist.
Mr.. Sedman, who is a member OF
the board of lectureship Of the
Mother Church and widely known
in religious work, said in parts
AT this time 1 desire TO call your
attention especially TO that aspect
OF Christian Science which makes
plain the in~destructible nature Of
good. When We look out over the
world. and mark the problems which
confront humanity, We can easily
see that no teaching can lift the
burdens from the shoulders Of men,
unless it can make plain the fact
that the discords and distreSses Of
the race have no foundation in
Gods infinite plan. All the fears
which beSet humanity can be traced
to the prevailing belief that evil is
real and that good can be de-
stroyed."
Good In~destructible
They fear even for life it
self. because they believe life to be
destructible. Christian Science
comes putting to rout all such fears
with the comforting assurance that
good is, always has been, and ever
will be indestructible. There is no
such thing as destructible or perish
able good.
God is good, infinite, ever-pres-
ent, indestructibly good, existing at
the standpoint of ~causation. Oo-
viously then, God can have within
Himself no destructive element. 1t
follows that since there is no de-
structiv element in God, there can
be no destructive element in that
which God creates.
Every one agrees that good and
evil r opposites. Honesty and dis
honesty are opposites. Love and
hate, holiness and u~nholiness, sick
ness and health, happiness and I'M
happiness. harmony and diScord are
opposites. Mrs. Eddy was led by
God to see that since good and evil
are oppoSites, only n of them can
be real. She saw that since the per-
feet God obviously produces the real
good, then evil, the opposite OF good,
can not come from God and must
be unreal. No one has ever been
able to explain how a perfect Coo
could create evil; and no n has
ever been able to explain how evil
can exist as a reality if God is per-
feet and omnipotent.
Religion Takes Stand
Christian Science takes its stand
squarely on this proposition and
teaches that the perfect and ON
nipotent God can not, and does not,
produce evil of any sort, and that
consequently evil Is that which may
be supposed to exl<. but which &C
tually has no existence. Centuries
ago Jesus taught and demonstrated
the unreality of evil. The people OF
his day thought of leprosy as terri
bic reality. a mighty power capable
of destroying the health and the
life of a man. If leprosy had been
a reality. Jesus could not have de-
stroved it. He destroyed leprosy
with perfect ease, because he knew
that God never made leprosy nor
anv other form of evil. Christian
science is proving today, as Jesus
did. that e6ll is unreal and power
less. +.
What is health? Well. it is not
a material condition and it does not
rest upon matter as its foundation.
PEOPLE will continue to believe that
they can lose their good so long as
they place that good on a material
foundation. But all the while the
facts is that the good rests upon a
spiritual foundation. Health is
spiritual. 1t is a quality OF God,
and God is infinite Spirit. Health is
eternal. universal, and indeStructlble.
II is an inherent quality of every
creature which God produces. You
have health because God is forever
harmonious, and you reflect Him.
Your health is an inherent quail
ity of your very being. 1t is eternal
and indestructible. because you as
a child of God are eternal and in
destructible. and you are eternal ana
i-ndestructibl e. because God is eter-
nal and indestructible, and He for
ever sustains and preserves you. We
never lose our health. 1t can never
be diminished or impaired. II Is
with us wherever We are, and it Is
ours to enjoy forever and forever
without interruption.
sickness a Delusion"
sickness can not destroy health,
il can not diminish or displace
health. What is sickness? 1t is
not a material condition. 1t Is not
produced by matter. Sickness IS a
mental delusion. Sickness is Slckly
thinking. Now. there is no sickly
thinking in God. nor in Gods crea-
zion. Mortals. taught TO believe IN
sickness. think in a sickly fashion,
and a sickly state of mind mani
tests itself in an inharmoiouS hui
man body. But only Gods thoughts
are true. and whatever is un-Godlike
is untrue. unreal and unnecessary.
Man in Gods image and likeness
all his thoughts from God.
and he cognizes only that which
God produces and cognizes. Conse-
ouentlv. man in Gods image never
en~tertains sickly thoughts. and he
is never sick. When mortals enter
tain sickly thoughts. that false
thinking hides from them the ever
present and universal health. Just as
= mist or fog hides from our view
the sun. AS soon as sickly think
inc is cast out Of human conscious
ness bv the truth of being, the sense
Of sickness vanishes into its native
nothingness and then health is
seen"
PARIS COUNCIL ALLOWS
ouODC e 000I LIGHTING