The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-01
Noted Christian ScienceL Leader in LectureH He

to do them harm, power to injure them with criticism, hatred, antag- onism, or directed malice. Let them follow carefully Jesus mental pro- cesses and know that no negative, ignorant, material thinking has one atom of power against Gods man, The power of darkness" can never deprive Q candle of its own light. The candle light has native power against which all the darkness in the world cannot avail. No more can the darkened thinking of one mortal, or many mortalS, affect the 0od-enlightened consciousness of one man. Between Q ray of light and a world of darkness there is no contact. One Is positive, the other negative, Between man, whose being Is Q beam of living, intelligent light, and the darkness of material, hate full, unkind thinking there Is never even q momentary link or contact.
 Mesmcrlsm Powerless
 Tn his well-known book, 'Kim." Kipling relates how Kim protected his thought from the mesmeric sug- gestions of an Indian fakir by re- fusing to give his attention to the suggestions of the fakir and by clinging instead to portions of the multiplication table. The fakir commanded Kim to break c jar. Kim did so and 1t fell into fifty pieces. Then by Tlesmeric suggestions the fakir attempted to delude Kim into believing that the many pieces came together again, under magic power, Kim determined not to lis- ten to what the fakir was saying but to observe with his eyes, and in his thinking to keep his thought fixed on certain parts of the multi plication table, While the fakir was making his well-ealeulated suggeS- tionS, Kim clung in his thought to the mathematical truths, He saw the Jar broken, but 1t did not rec sume Its original shape as the fakir asserted 1t did. Ho had found Q de- fense against the fakir's niesmeric suggestions by filling his conscious ness with mathematical truths.
 Christian Science teaches of Q de- fenSe even more scientific and so more powerful. It is to cling stead- fastly to the true idea of God and your true individuality as Gods perfect, individuallzed expression of mind, amenable only to the power Of real mind sensible only of the ideas, forces and verities of this Mind, and never amenale to, or open to, the influence of Q negative, mortal mind and It's uninteliigent SuppoSitional activity.
 Evil mental practice, sometimes designated malpractice, is as power" less against Gods man as it IS against God, for man Is Of and in God, It falls utterly by reason or It's inherent powerlesSnesS to touch or harm the affirmative conscious- ness that knows mans divine origin and power, and his natural, coil- seiouS at.one- -ment with tho onni- potent Mind. Evil thinking hos not tho smallest degree of power from God, The one absolute intelligence cannot, and does not, ever yield It's man or It's power to darkness malice. and ignorance. Whore, then, can evil obtain powerP It cannot obtain real power from anywhere Whatever power 1t may seem to have 1t obtains from mortal mind, and we ignor0ntly believe in 1t, just AS tho dreamer believes in hiS dream. You may believe that 0 black cat, or tho number thir teen, hos some evil power, or that an evil -thinking mortal can hurt you with his thoughts, but fortunately your superstitious belief does not make such baSeleSs beliefs true You may suffer from your false DC. lief while you entertain 1t, but whenever you arc ready to think trlthfuliy--ready to awaken from your dream--you can Do freo from it and It's consequences. It B not evil that has power. It iS your belief that it has power which needs to Do destroyed. An understanding that God has oil power will do thiS' Nothing else Will.
 It is c good practice daily to ask yourself tho question, Where IS i,oWerP Realize that to God, infinite. affirmative Mind, alone belongs all power, Furthermore Mind, intelli. aence, possesses every individual agency through which power can operate. This one Mind-power IS always constructive, protective, suS' taining, never harmful or dcStruc' tive. Ask yourself the question, Since God hos oil the power there IA, how much power is left for eyil2 None, I can then rely with perfect confidence on the power Of 0od to protect mo, to govern my thinking, inv acts, my Judgments. All my hot,eg commit to tho power or cod, Az Mrs. Eddy says in one or her poems Miscellaneous Writing, D. aas), "Thou to whose power our hope we give" Lot Us givo our cy' ory hope to Gods loving, wise, all' embracing power.
 God Is Everywhere Omnipotent
 Orthodox religion has conceded Gods power to overcome Sin, but t has been uncertain and hesitant 10 admit Gods power always 10 over' como sickness and subjugatc mat. tor, Yet that s what Jesus spent most of hiS time doing. In every detail of his human experience no recognized tho spiritual power Of good. God, whether the need was to make c sick body vol, c base mentality wholesome, or to oyer- come tho limiting forces Of matter which said intelligence could not at once provide food for . multitude, and that material weight and space could separate man from the place where it was right for him to be' Mrs, Eddy cautions Christian sci- entlstg not to limit in any direc- tion Of thought the otnnipreeence and onnipotence of God" (ecience and Health, D. 44O. -
 Every moment we aro thinking. Our thought goes out iil c great many directions. Sometimes the di. roction is toward our homes, our dear ones, our businesses. employ | ..~s..l As.s, aiassN0t1 and iiR nEH0Ci0s