Article September 2, 1911 Issue

There is no gainsaying the fact that sin claims to...

James D. Sherwood

Beaumont (Tex.) Enterprise

There is no gainsaying the fact that sin claims to exert an influence over mortals. There is no denial of the fact that disease and death, as they appear to mortals, are common experiences among the children of men; but they are not the work of God. God is infinite good. God is the only cause and creator, whose omnipresence fills immensity. The infinity of good leaves no room for evil of any kind. Christian Science proves the unreality of disease by healing it. It proves the nothingness of sin by destroying it. Every clergyman believes sin can be overcome through repentance and reformation; and that is just what Christian Science teaches. When sin is destroyed it ceases to have manifestation in corporeal sensation; and when one is healed in Christian Science he is better morally as well as physically, because the process is good, annulling the claims of evil, and giving an improved sense of God and His universe. When all sin is destroyed the wages of sin will cease and death will be obsolete. The insubstantiality of death is evidenced by the statement, "The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death."

If one magnifies to his consciousness a sense of sin, and practises what he believes, sin will seem real, and he will lose the sense of good as ever present, and darkness will becloud his thought, thus proving of man that "as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." How much better it is to make good real, to hold in thought the consciousness of

God's allness, and that man in God's image is like God. St. Paul said: "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" Christ Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect."

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