Word: evil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christian Science regards as real only that which can be attributed to God, the only real cause, precluding any effect from any other cause. Evil, discord, sin and disease have no relation with God or his perfect creation, hence are unreal. All mankind, striving to be rid of evil, instinctively repudiates it in their thought as being unnatural, hence in the last analysis unreal. Though very real to the material sense, sin, sickness and discord, judged in the light of the spiritual sense of being which overrules and transcends material sense, are seen to be false claims about true life...
...Evil a False Belief...
...Evil, then, is a false belief. For every fact one may suppose its opposite lie. The sum of evil is the lie about God, universal good. This lie ceases to have recognition or place when the truth is realized. Hence Jesus, calling evil a liar, pointed out liberation, saying, 'Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free'. This brief statement completely summarizes Christian Science practice and is the law directing all human progress...
...have awakened to the unreality of one concept, as old as the human species, namely that of autocracy, in its aggressive political phases. Therefore every one should awaken to the unreality of every evil concept, all sin and disease, and cast it out of his consciousness. God is not on the side of cancer or influenza any more than of autocracy. Even greater than our right to political self-government is our right and ability to resist and overthrow the attempts of evil to rule us boldly and mentally...
...looking forward to the establishment of an intercollegiate liberal organization, appreciate the editorial which appeared in the CRIMSON on Saturday. The warning which it sounded is not inapt; the advice which it offered is welcome. It would be easy for such an organization to slip into some of the evil ways of liberalism, to become "bigoted and impassioned", to "exhibit its own particular little idiosyncrasies". But it is our hope that the organization which is seen to be created will remain liberal in the true sense of the word. We could adopt no better platform than that suggested...