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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
GIVES INDIVIDUAL
ARM AGAINST EVIL
Tlx following Sectur on Christian
Science u delivered by Frank Bll,
a. S. B., of New York City, member
of the board of lectureship of The
Mother Church, The Pint church of
Christ, Scientist, In Boston, Mw.
pridsy erenlng at the Holly theater:
ChrUtlan Science la applied to hu
man problem through what St. Paul
calls transformation by the renewing
of the mind. Sin. disease, poverty,
and the like, are healed by meana
purely mental or spiritual. The means
thus employed to help mankind are
not supernatural, not occult, but
Christian and scientific. They ex
press the simple, natural, accurate
Tightness of reality.
Reaffirming and emphasizing the
essential goodness of Ood, Christian
Science defines evil, the opposite of
good, as the unllkeneas of Ood. The
degree of the unllkeness Is the meas
ure of the evil. Stimulating and en
larging the student's understanding
of the nature of Ood, Christian
Science enables him to distinguish
evil from good and thus equips him
to deal with evil Intelligently snd
effectively.
The great spiritual thinkers who
speak to us through the Scriptures
are of one accord In urging acqualn
snce with the divine nature a es
sential to mastery over evil. Jesus
taught that to know Ood aright is
the remedy for all Ills, even to the
realisation of "life eternal." the per
fection of being. Pure Christianity
must be superior to everything that
would tend to deplete or to destroy
man, or even to hold him In a limited
sense of life and destiny. '
Christian contemplation of Ood's
nature as spiritual, therefore not ma
mterlal, as Infinite and perfect,
therefore neither limited nor incom
plete, helps one to recognlre that
materiality, limitation, and Imper
fection ar unllkenesses of Ood,
therefore not good but evil. Gross
material mlndedness may not tske
kindly to' such realization, but to
spiritual mlndedness it Is natural
and Inevitable. Spiritual mlndedness
. may be cultivated by any earneat
Individual through the study of the
textbook of Christian Science,
"Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy.
Spiritual mlndedness Is the oppo
site of material mlndedness. "The
things of the Spirit" are discerned
to be real and tangible as material
sense Is put off through the trans
forming processes of oorrect Christian
thinking, In which there la diligent
and syatematlo effort to love Ood,
Infinite Spirit, "with all the mind."
To spiritual mlndedness It Is In
creasingly clear that whatever Is un
like the goodness of Ood Is In Its
final analysis false, and "Be not
afraid!" thus becomes soienttflo.
The hold of materialism Is loosen
ing. Philosophers speak with assur
ance of matter as a mere mental Im
pression; the human voice encircles
the earth In a moment; an ocean of
pace Is but a day's Journey by air.
Those who see natural progress In
these things are not far from recog
nition of the fact that Jesus could
be at "the other side" of the sea
instantlj by reason of the perfection
of hla atate of mind, the aplrltual
purity of his thought. Enlightened
thinking In our da yhas reduced a
continent to a few hours of travel and
will continue to reduos matter until
it no longer obitruote. Obstruction Is
the opposite of freedom, and true
freedom Is good. The general trend
of human progress, despite occasional
gross deviations, bespeaks the ulti
mate triumph of the good, m her
book, "The First Church of Christ,
Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 945),
Mrs. Eddy aays of "modern material
inventions." "They are preparing the
way for us."
What Is needed Is not to disre
gard or to slter reality but so to
correct the sense of things that ths
fact rather than the error ahall be
revealed. Christian Science accomp
lices this correction through prayer,
through aplrltuallnitlon of thought,
through the cultivation of a atate of
mind that reject false physical sense
testimony and accepts the spiritual
truth.
Jesus frequently said that hla aense
of things' was different from that of
materially minded persons. This Is
especially noticeable In connection
with hla healing work. Being aplrlt
ually minded, he saw the ten lepers
as clean, ready to show themselves
to the prleat. He saw the paralytic
by Bethoada pool aa able to "arise
and walk." No queatlon appears to
have occurred to him aa to whether
the two blind men could see; they
were questioned only as to their be
lief. To him Luarus and the daugh
ter of Jalrus were not dead but
asleep. Hla statements on these and
other like ccoaalona show that he was
conscious of the fact that through
hla Immaculate spiritual understand
ing ths pryslral aense evidence of
evil was reveraed and cast out. Such
was the purity and strength of hla
reallratlon that nothing but the good
is true, thst many earneat peraona
caught something of ths "mind that
was In Christ Jesus'' and were lifted
out of a sense of pain, deformity,
sin, or liu-k. Net a fact waa changed.
Jeans verified the prophecy of
Isaiah that he ahould not Judge ac
cording to "the eight of his eves"
or "tiie hearing of his ears." accord
ing to the material aenae verdict
Since ths time of Jeaua the truth of
being. In contradistinction to the
human belief In evil, has not been
uttered with anything like tits cour
ageous clearness with which Mrs.
Eddy haa set it forth In her many
wrltlnga. The purity of her reallra
tlon of the basic Tightness of reality
Increasingly appears to tlte esrnest
student, christian 6tlenltt there
fore rejoice to acknowledge her aplr-
llusl leadership.
Life spiritual. Not material
The common belief about a msn's
life Is that he live within a physical
body, that his Identity la located In
side a mslerlal atruclure of flesh
snd bonea. How life got Into the
body, what keeps It there, bo It Is
to get out, and where It Is to go
when It gets' out, are subjects of
much speculation and little assur
ance. All human Ills are associated with
the sense of life In the flesh. There
in man la supposed to lire a precar
ious life and to die an Inevitable
death; therein are hla ache and
pains, his fears and dlseppolntmsnts,
his sinful habits, devastating appe
tites, llluslvs pleasures. The sorrows
and aufferinge from which mortals
pray to bs delivered all have to do
directly or Indirectly with ths so-
called corporeal, fleshly selfhood. In
cluding that which Is called the mind
within ths body. ChrUtlan Selene.
concerned with the overcoming of
human HI, that the Inherent Tight
ness of Ood's creation may appear.
invites men to consider the reason
sbleness of the proposition thst since
discord Is found only within the
realm of physical sens, the way out
of trouble Us through the taking
on of a batter sense. It Is possible
to do this In a perfectly natural way.
To hold to the belief that man
Uvea Inside of a material body one
must well-nigh Ignore the fact that
actual life has not been found In the
body. Bach of the activities wlthls
the body can be truthfully described
only as an effect of something else.
If thst something else were inside
of the body It scarcely could have
escaped detection by this time.
The situation Is illumined by such
statement a this from the Christ
tan Science textbook, "Science and
Health with Key to til Scriptures,
by Mary Baker Eddy, page 208: "You
embrace your body in your thought,
and you should delineate upon It
thought of health, not of sickness.
A moment's consideration makes It
plain thst we do embrace our
material body In our thoughts.
Therefore both we and our thoughts
must be In fact outside of that body.
On ootud not well be Inside of that
which he embraces. We contemplate
our so-called physical selves from
without, not from within.
.If man does not really live In the
flesh, then clearly he ought not to
go on believing that he doe. In
spired thought beckon us out of
materiality. In Oeneala we are assur
ed that true man I the Image and
likeness of Infinite Spirit. A paalm
reminds us thst we shall be satisfied
when we awake in Ood's likeness, the
likeness of Spirit. Isslah urges. "Cease
y from msn, whose breath 1 In his
nostrils: for wherein I he to be ac
counted of?" Jesus, commanding hla
followers to take no thought for the
body, declares that real life, life eter
nal, Is a state of mind, to know Ood
aright. St. Paul, seeing that "they
that are In the flesh cannot please
Ood," advises Christiana to cultivate
a willingness "to bs absent from the
body, end to be present with the
Lord." John, the Revelator, explaina
the possibility of beholding new
heaven and new earth, not material
but spiritual, through mental purifi
cation. ChrUtlan Science teaohes and
proves that to lift one's sense of
Identity and reality up out of the
flesh Into Infinite Spirit promotes
health and harmony. Thus Christian
Science reatorea that which waa lost,
ChrUtlan healing.
Ufa was no mystery to Jesus. "It
la the plrlt that qulokeneth; the
flesh proflteth nothing." said he. The
sick are healed ana sinners are in
formed through learning to look out
alde of the flesh for that true spirit
ual animation which alon 1 capable
of maintaining the universe and all
that Is therein.
To ths Master evidently It was
clear that health la primarily a state
of thought and only secondarily or
Incidentally a condition of body or
matter. To him the sick were those
"whom Satan hath bound." the Sat
an whom he described as "liar, and
the father of It." a self-consiituwra
II or falss sense, having "no truth"
in It. Both the casting out of devlla,
alck, deluded beliefs, and the spirit
ual quickening of those who came to
bs healed were acowipllshed through
the operation of the Mind that was
In Christ Jesus, aa St. Paul describes
It. Those who were healed were those
whose hearts were open to the regen--.t(u
influence of that mind or
sense which perceived and reflected
the absolute truth concerning was
creation.
Tru Sense Versus raise
The teachings of Christian Selene
nninride with the affirmation of the
Scripture that all thlnga war mads
by ood. that witnout rum w
anything made, that Ood saw. com
prehended, creation In it entirety,
and It waa very good.
The Bible also sver that every
thing that waa mads not only was
In the beginning pertect and com
plete, but Is now and everlastingly
will be perfect and complete. In the
word of Eocleslaates, "Whatsoever
Ood doeth. It shall be for ever: noth
ing can be put to It, nor any thing
taken from It."
These declsratlons ars true, not
only because they appear In the
Bible: they ars true because uiey
could not possibly bs untrue. Reason
and logic atflrm the aubllmely simple
proposition that the Intelligence and
ability to create a universe Imply the
Intelligence and ability to create It
aright.
But while revelation and reason
agree aa to the unanswerable (act.
human sense argue through a thou
aand dally eaperlenrea that discord,
lesr, sin. and disease, myriad forms
and phaeea of evil, do sxlat. are a
part ot actuality; that creation. If it
ever was good and right, was not sul
tlcently good and right to remain
forever good and right.
Thers is conflict, in othsr words,
between pure reason snd human ex
perience. Neither the unatable theor
ies ot material science, tns Blind
hopes of superficial religion, nor the
stupid dreams ot sensualism will
solve this problem.
Fortunately, in all ages there hsve
been prophet snd seers who were
not wholly deceived by the epparently
overwhelming material sense testi
mony on the wrong aide. In the nine
teenth century a woman saw the In
congruity between the truth of being
snd experience of human life. Site
saw that perfect (Kid and Imperfect
man could not both he true. Imper
fection could not be real unless God.
the creator of all. la Its author. Im
perfect creation could be the product
only of Imperfect creator. To her the
question waa clear-cut and uneaap
able. Her answer waa such a would
com from on who loved Ood whole
heartedly and puremindcdlj a did
Mary Baker Eddy. In her textbook,
'Selene and Health with Key to the
Scriptures." psg lis, she write:
"According to ths Scripture, I find
that Ood U true, 'but every (mortal)
man a liar.' " The aense of things that
denlea the perfection of Ood and His
creation I fslss.
When Mr. Eddy learned that It la
the physical senses which presume to
tske Issue with Ood' perfection, she
saw that It is ths Impressions of these
senses which constitute whst the Bible
term the "carnal mind." that "Is en
mity against Ood." If Ood's man 1 all
right, the mind or sense which says
thst he is partly wrong U a lying
mind, a false sense. Mrs. Eddy calls
this false sense of things mortal mind,
to dUtlnguish It from immortal Mind,
which latter U properly spelled with
a capital M. for It U a true synonym
for Ood. When Paul declared that sal
vation ahould be found In taking on
the Mind that was In Christ Jesus.
he knew that Jesus had repudiated ths
so-called mind or sense of things thst
accepted any evidence of reality In
aught unlike the nature of Ood.
Mortal Mind must be nut off. Whv?
Becauss It is composed of that ma
terial sense which Is unable to resut
the temptation to believe that mind
leas, Inert, nonlntelllgent matter has
the capacity within Itself to think,
to act. to live; to believe that man,
heretore, U not the Image and like
ness of Ood. Spirit, but U a physical
meohanUm. Mortal mind consUts of
the thoughts that It thinks. There
fore, sa the Bible declares, "we wrestle
not sgslnst flesh and blood." We are
engaged In a warfare against wrong
thinking. The true sense is spiritual
and Its fruits are the opposite of sin
and death.
Application Is Simple
"Become conscious for a single mo
ment that Life and intelligence are
purely splrltusl, neither in nor of
matter, and the body will then ut
ter no complaints," writes Mrs. Eddy
on page 14 of science and Health.
How la one to acquire that consclous-
noss? By diligent right thinking. You
are master of your thought, if you so
choose. Your affairs, of body, mind,
surroundings, are the coincident ex
preslon of your thought.
If you will begin, s a systematic
dslly mental practice, to contemplate
the essential nature of Ood, as beat
you can conceive of Him, and defi
nitely and in an orderly fashion to
affirm In your thought the reality
of Ood's nature; If you win In like
manner systematically and persistent
ly deny the essential reality of all
that 1 unlike the nature ot infinite
Spirit: if you will do this not aa a
matter of vain repetition, but with
an earneat striving to bring into thla
activity some degree of conscious
realization of the actual presence and
power of Ood, operating In and
through you to bring into expression
the essential! of His nature, you will
find that, asking bread, you will not
be given a stone.
You will find. If your experience
does not differ from that of count
less thousands of ycur fellow-men,
that the setting Into operation of
these processes of Chrlatlanly scien
tific thinking will MfV.x to be made
manifest In moat practical ways In
your experience, In healing of aick
neas, overcoming , of sin, mastery of
lack, suppression of discord, elimina
tion of fear. There U rich reward In
taking your stand mentally on the
side of the good Ood and His good
creation.
There I In spiritual reality noth
ing the matter with Ood or His cre
ation. The trouble Is with our sense
of things. We need to take on the
Mind thst was In Christ Jesus, which
enabled him to say wtth absolute
conviction, "Be ye therefore perfect,
even s your Father which Is In heav
en Is perfect." We need not merely to
believe thla theoretic'.:?, but to af
firm It practically, to use It as a spir
itual weapon against suggestions of
Imperfection, as did the Maater.
The medicine of the Great Physl-
etan waa denial of error and affirma
tion of truth. Those whoso heart
opened to hla teaching were mentally
purified and stlmulsted, and the out
wsrd effect were mantfeat. By thla
purely aplrltual process the sick were
heeled, the lame walked, the dumb
spake, the blind saw. the dead were
ralaed. And the method waa alwaya
the same the definite rule of Im
perfection denied, perfection affirm
ed. "He sent his word, snd heeled
them." Here was such clear reallra
tlon of the fact of perfection that
mere belief In Imperfection faded out
of consciousness.
Ths rediscovery of the Christ meth
od of healing, the setting forth of the
simple rule and method by which
thU healing may be accomplished,
and the establishment of a church to
protect her discovery for the benefit
of mankind, these affirm, and will
Increasingly affirm, the greatuesa ot
Mary Baker Eddy. Through her pure
love for Ood and man millions have
been blessed with health, strength.
abundance, joy, and peace, such aa
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ThU Selene quickly verifies Itself
in th experience of ths tamest stu
dent. It U like mathematics In that
reapect. A few simple application of
the primary rule will prove th Prln
clpls and Inspire th oonfldeno nec
essary to further progress.
Th Overcoming of Lack
ChrUtlan Science heal poverty In
the same manner that alckness and
sin are healed, through "the renewing
of the mind." as St. Paul put It. In
spired writers repeatedly bar assert.
ed that thought adjusted to th di
vine nature will bear fruit "after It
kind." Jesus gave the unfailing rule
for success when he said, "Seek y
first the kingdom of Ood, and hu
righteousness; and all these thing
ahall be added unto you." ThU king
dom, the Master said, U "within you,"
snd "st hand;" therefore the Individ
ual Christian has th right to feel
that ths essential completeness of
reality Is present, not absent, and
only need to be realized In order to
be enjoyed.
A divinely Intelligent and loving
creator ha not made a man to be Im
poverished any more than to be sick
or sinful. Poverty, like disease and
aln, Involve a mistaken sens of Ood
and Hla work. The evil quality of
poverty U not that It makes men suf
fer but that It misrepresent Ood.
The ChrUtlan aim in overcoming pov
erty, as in healing alckneas and aln.
U to th glory of Ood. Mere getting
of money would not glorify Ood. but
the demonstration of power over ma
terial things through spiritual under
standing doe "magnify the Lord."
The writer of OeneaU affirm that
divine Spirit has given msn domin
ion over earthly things. Jeaua proved
this to be true and said hU follow
era should do likewise.
One who for msny years hsd been
distressingly limited in lnoome or sal
ary found himself trying vainly to
use his early glimpses of Chrlstlsn
Science to enlarge the salary by some
mysterious process. Finally he saw
that what needed to be enlarged first
was his understanding of man sa
Ood's Image and likeness. It was hu
narrow, pinched sense of self that was
bringing forth 'after It kind" In hu
personal experience. Cultivating a
larger and more aplrltual concept of
God and mnn, as he learned to do In
a perfectly natural way through the
teachlnge of ChrUtlan Science, he
soon found this clarified vision re
flected in hU affairs. Men and things
began to manifest an unmistakable
tendency to help rather than to hin
der. Unexpected opportunities appear
ed and unsuspected capacities came
to light. Human relationships became
more fruitful of good, after the man
ner of true brotherhood.
ChrUtlan Science cannot bs used
for the mere acquisition of money or
other material things, but It 1 auc
eeaafully employed to the overcoming
of that abnormal sense of lack which
Is the result of lgnoranc of spiritual
substance and which In turn bear
fruit In human fear and poverty.
Mastery of materiality la the secret
of wealth and health. It U the mas
tery that cornea to light In dally ex
perience through the Chrlatlanly sci
entific cultivation of spiritual-minded
ness.
Reality Brought To Light
ChrUtlan healing la becoming leas
mysterious to those who see. as men
are Increasingly seeing, that so-called
material object are object In sense
or thought, not outside of thought or
sense, snd that 'this Is true of the
Individual object called a phys
ical person and of th aggre
gated object called a person's af
fairs, njodern discovery and Invention
reveal a dlatlnct trend away from
many long-entrenched bellefa in the
so-called substantial qualities of ma
teriality. Liberated thought U being
prepared to accept Mrs. Eddy's teach
ing, that "There Is no life, truth. In
telligence, nor substance In matter.
All I Infinite Mind and Its Infinite
manifestation, for Ood la All-in-all"
(Science and Health, p. 488).
St. Paul did not require a labora
tory In order to be convinced that th
flesh, materiality, "cannot Inherit th
kingdom of Ood." that Is. has no place
In reality. He was sufflel.mt.ly chris
tian to see that there coulA be no es
sentlol reality In that which does not
contorm to the simple lclc '.hat th
creation of a good creator U good. It
was this ChrUtlan purity of thought
which enabled Paul to be a disting
uished hesler of the sick, after the
manner of his great Master. HU em
phatic reminder to the Athenians
that "we live, and move, and have
our being" In Ood. In Infinite Spirit,
revealed a stst of mind through
which heeling inspiration would nst
urally radiate to those who were suf
fering from the dlscondant effects of
th belief that man lives In the un
llkeness of Spirit, namely, In the
fleah..
In the nineteenth century lived a
woman whose love for Ood was so
pur and true that she gladly accept
ed the divine eommlaalon to declare
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to this age th omnlpreeenc of Ood'
goodness and th consequent unreal'
Ity of whatever U unllk th goodness
of Ood. Mary Baker Eddy could not
nave discovered the science of Chris
tisnlty had h not been willing truly
to follow him of whom It was pro.
phetlcally said. "He shall not Judge
after the sight of hu eyes, neither re
prove after the hearing of hU ears:
. . . and he ahall smite ths earth with
th rod of hi mouth." A mere theory
of Crlatianlty might affirm the good
ness of Ood and seek to Ignore ap
pearance to th contrary. Th actual
Science of ChrUtlsnlty must not only
assert the goodness of Ood, but must
"smite the earth" In proof of Ood
goodness, teaching It adherent how
to reverse the suggestions of physical
aense, which otherwise would deny
thst th cause of reality Is either wise
or good.
The Nature of r.vll
There need b no perplexity In re
gard to Mrs. Eddy' use of th term
"animal magnetism" on th part of
those who accept understanding!? her
statement, on page 108 of Science and
Health, that "A named In Christian
Selene, animal magnetism or hyp
notism U the specific term of error,
or mortal mind."
Mrs. Eddy haa not undertaken to
invent a new kind of evil, nor Is the
student of Christian Science invited
to substitute a mental devil for a phys
ical one. He u invited to use the term
animal magnetism as "the specific
term for error," because to do so will
help him to adjust hU thought In
telligently to the problem of evil as
they appear In hU human experience.
ChrUtlsnlty teaches, according to
St. Paul, that man lives, moves, snd
nas nu being in Ood. In Infinite Spir
it. ChrUtUns presumably accept St.
Paul statement that "they thst are
In the flesh cannot please God."
Spiritual existence alone U In accord
wnn the design of Deity.
oood men and women in all times
have yearned for the realization of
spiritual existence, but have found it
oimcult to resist the attraction of a
sense or life not In Ood. Spirit, but In
animal llesh, which, according to the
Scriptures, "lusteth against the
Spirit." Like St. Paul they could say:
wim in mind 1 myself sen the
law of Ood; but with the fleh th
law of sin."
The specific term for anything U
the term which reveals It exact or
particular nature. ChrUtlan Scientists
una trial the us of th term "anlmsl
magnetism" aa "the specific term for
error" helps them to understand that
evil Is a false and fraudulent attrac
tion of the sense of life from Spirit
"" iiean, and mat outelde of the
mesmeric Illusions of thU false and
fraudulent sense there Is and can be
no field of operation for evil mental
miiuencea or tendencies. Thu th
student learns that evil u.not a mys
terious something to be either feared
or Ignored, but a common impulse of
the mortal mind, or fleshly sense, to
be overcome. Through meeting snd
mastering this fraudulent Impulse, on
the basis of the essential rlghtness of
Ood and HU creation, the scientific
Christian make himself a channel
for divine Love, which U the specific
term for the only spiritually real Im
pulse, Influence, attraction, or law.
Thus he become a Christian healer.
Resisting False Influence
The activity of Christian Science is
not of the nature of mental sugges
tion or hypnotism. Jesus expounded
th rule, "Not my will, but thine, be
done." The effort of mentel sugges
tion is to impose one human will
upon another.' Much that Is Involved
In the so-called law of evil and dis
cs In human experience can be
traced to some such wrong mental
activity or mental malpractice. Jesus
denounoed human will and proclaim
ed the will of Ood to be the only real
wiu-power. That rul brought heel
ing to the sick nineteen centuries
sgo. and It brings healing to the alck
to-day.
The rule. "Not my will, but thine,
be done.' Is, of course, the rule of per
fection. Gods will Is perfect. Thought
that Is open to the fundamental
Tightness of being catches something
of the aplrltual Import . of Jesus'
teaching, snd this Improved state of
mind manifest Itself, after It kind.
In outward conditions and affslrs.
Jesus must hsve meant this when he
said regarding one of his healings.
"Thy faith hath msde the whole."
His affirmation of Ood's will thst
mad Is perfect had encountered a
measure of acceptance, and that Im
proved atate of mind which he named
faith, expressed Itself In a corres
ponding state of body, a states of
mind never fall to do. Th scientific
relationship between atate of mind
and state of health Is affirmed and
reaffirmed In t heScrlptures.
The study and application of ChrU
tlan Science will atlmulate one' nat
ural capacity to reject the mental
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suggestions of rU and so to counter
act their sffscte. Christian healing
will thu be seen to b th result of
the adjustment of thought to the
nature of Ood and HU creation. St.
James must have been aware of thU
when he admonished those who were
sick to seek healing through the prsy-
er of the righteous. Mrs. Eddy wss
spiritually minded enough to pray In
that manner and to teach others to
do llkewlss. She devoted herself to
that loving mission from ths tlms she
discovered ChrUtlan Science.
Disposing of a Negation
Having accepted the Scriptural as
surance that the author of all reality
U good, and the creator of that only
which is good, the Christian Sclentiat
does not shun the logical conclusion
that evil U not an entity. The teach
ing of ChrUtlan Science, that evil Is
primarily a negation, may be illustra
ted by ths negatlveness of the vll
called Ignorance.
The schools are devoted to the over
coming of Ignorance, yet they do not
regard it aa something. No time Is
wasted In the schools In trying to in
struct any on a to th origin or
element of Ignorance. If a pupil were
to demand to know who made Ignor
ance, when It cam from and what it
consist of, h would have to be told
that nobody made Ignorance. It does
not come from anywhere, nor doe It
consist of anything. Th educator
know that lgnoranc Is not ths pres
ence of something but the absense of
something, tn other words, a pure ne
gation. Knowledge of the essential
negatlveness of Ignorance does not
tempt the educator to ignore the ef
fect of th negation.
Oone who haa gone to school could
not consistently say that It U Impos-
alble to comprehend the Idea of a
purely negative evil, a mere nothing.
which yet need to be positively and
rigorously handled to overcome. Chris
tian Scientist accept the definition
of evil or devil as given by the Mas
ter, namely, that It Is "a liar, and the
father of It," and has "no truth" In
It; In other words, a self-constituted
He, utterly devoid of truth.
Jesus' practice waa conalstent with
hu preaching as regard the nature
of evil. The essential nothingness of
evil need not be accepted as a mere
theory; It can be proved In many ways
by those who are willing to adjust
their dslly thinking to thU rule, as
explained In the ChrUtlan science
textbood. "Science and Health with
Key to the crlptures," by Mary Baker
Eddy.
ORDERS FOR PINE
OVER LAST YEAR
PORTLAND, Or., April 4 (AP)
Th Western Pin association said
today that 117 mllU reported an In
crease of 16 per cent In orders the
first three months of thU year, over
the corresponding period last year.
New business for the week ending
March 38 was 83,620,000 feet com
pared with 40,920,000 feet th cor
responding week a year ago.
Shipment for the week were 69.
661,000 feet and production 46,395,
000 feet for the week Just ended.
SALEM POLICE CHIEF
TO CONTINUE ON JOB
SALEM. April 4. (AP) The Salem
city council police committee de
cided luat night not to ask Chief oX
Police Prink Mlnto to resign or taice
a leave of absence while Indictments
against him, m a result of a gambl
ing Investigation, were pending.
Mlnto, Indicted" with a number of
others as a reault of the grand Jury
gambling probe, was charged with
malfeasance In office and failure to
enforce the gambling ordinance.
Hood River Area
Escapes Damage
HOOD RIVER. Ore., April 4. (AP)
Mid-Columbia orchards and truck
gardens escaped damage from snow
and cold weather the paat week, and
may haw benefited, growers said to
day. Fruit buds were not far enough de
veloped to be damiged.
The severe cold the past winter may
cut down the amount of tomato
blight which hu been widespread In
mid Columbia fields the past two sea
sons Fruitgrowers will apply dormant
Aprays soon.
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OUTDISTANCE G.O.P. IN
VOTER REGISTRATIONS
Copyrlrht, 1936. bv th Associated
Press
BAN FRANCISCO, April 4-(AP)
With about a fifth of th state yet to
report, registration figures for Cali
fornia show even grester gslns for
the Democrata than revealed in the
Associated Press registration survey
February 1.
Twelve of th state's H counties
are missing from this new summary,
including populous Alameda county,
which last February startled the O.
O. P. by turning up nt the Demo
cratic column.
Th 46 counties Hated, however,
with figures fairly complete, give the
Democrats of-J per cent of the total
registration. The totals:
Republlcsn registrants, 978.284.
Democratic registrants, 1.467,852.
In November 1933 registration to
tals were: Republican 1,565,264 and
Democratic 1,161.482.
EDMUND LOWE OF
NEW YORK, April 4. (AP) Ed
mund Lowe, firm chinned hero of
the screen, and his bride, the former
Mrs. Rita Krone Kaufman, were on
their honeymoon here today, guests
at the Fifth avenue home of Mrs.
Hattle Carnegie.
The surprise marriage late yester
day at Armonk, N. Y., was the third
for Lowe, who gave his age as 46.
Mrs. Lowe, who gave her age as 37,
is from Beverly Hills, Calif., tho for
mer wife of Albert Kaufman, a
Hollywood executive. She la a native
of Lincoln. Neb.
Lowe, native of San Jose, Calif.,
was the husband of Lllyan Taahman.
who died two years ago. His first
marriage, with Esther Miller, ended
tn divorce.
ALBANY COLLEGE BANS
CAMPUS NEWSPAPER
ALBANY, Ore.. April 4. (API-
Albany college waa without a campus
newspsper today. Dr. Thomas W.
Bibb, president, ordered the "Orange
Peal" temporarily suspended.
Ho reason waa ascribed.
Dr. Bibb said the publication will
be under the department of English
"for the bslsnce of the yesr," and
will be used only "for the various
classes." He said the present editors
would not be retained.
MAURER DEATH CAUSE
IS
EUOENE. Ore.. Anrll 4. (API an
autopsy on the body of Otto H.
Maurer, secretary-treasurer of the
renn i,umoer company, who died at
McQlynn under peculiar eircum.
stances, was conducted here (hit
morning.
'The supposition is. followins the
autopsy, that Mr. Maurer met his
death by suicide. Death could have
been caused from an accident, how
ever." stated Charles P. Poole, county
coroner, following the autopsy.
Three Fatalities
In State Industry
SALEM. April 4. (API Three men
died during the past week from In
juries received in Industrial accident
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snd 483 othera war hurt, ths. state
accident commission reported.
Fatalities were Clarenc C. Hansen,
hoist operator of Toledo, injured at
Toledo March 30: Bill Pblpps, timber
worker of Oarlbaldl, injured at Tilla
mook January 3; and Oren R. Adam
son, truck driver of Eagle Point, In
jured st Ashland March 30.
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