Article June 15, 1907 Issue

SOME COSTLY ADMISSIONS

C. W. CHADWICK.

Since "there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so," it behooves every professing Christian to watch the thoughts that knock at the door of his consciousness. Even the student of Christian Science is sometimes caught napping in this most important matter. He forgets momentarily that all power lies within the realm of divine Mind, consequently that every erroneous admission on his part only robs him of the true consciousness of heaven or harmony. The great Master-thinker knew this, and in admonishing his followers to "watch" he delivered one of the most comprehensive sermons ever preached. He knew that humanity's only hope was in guarding the gateway to their habitation of thinking. They must think their way into the kingdom of heaven, and this involves the admission of that only which is true and Godlike, and the rejection of everything which is erroneous or un-Godlike.

The mighty discontent in the world to-day is due to the fact that humanity have strayed away from the beaten path leading heavenward, having lost the art of guarding their thought. A vast multitude of false theories, opinions, and beliefs have crowded themselves into consciousness, and mortals have accepted them as true; they have forsaken an all-good God, and have believed in the existence of another power, presence, and reality named evil. From this belief as a storm-center radiate a thousand false admissions, all of which tend to obscure a natural and scientific conception of the kingdom of heaven in the hearts of men.

One of the most costly of these has been the admission that man was once an angel, but that he has since fallen into sin and must be made to atone for his wrongdoing, and thus be brought back into his primitive angelic state. This is equivalent to believing that the statement "two times two is four" was once true, but has since been changed into the misstatement "two times two is five;" and that it must therefore be corrected and be made to harmonize with its principle. Christian Science solves this vexed problem by declaring that what God has created is eternally spiritual and perfect, and cannot fall or be divorced from its divine Principle. It then follows that the ideal man, the image and likeness of God, Spirit, has not fallen into sin, but that false human sense is both the sin and the sinner. The student of Christian Science is, therefore, engaged in the scientific elimination of this erroneous sense which incorrectly defines God's perfect creation.

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