Article February 3, 1912 Issue

The devil, as a deception, a lie, or personified evil, is...

Olcott Haskell

Healdsburg (Cal.) Enterprise

The devil, as a deception, a lie, or personified evil, is indeed frequently spoken of in the New Testament, but it is significant that the methods described for his overthrow are wholly mental. St. Paul writes: "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." And he enumerates truth, righteousness, peace, faith, the word of God, and prayer, as weapons in this warfare. Such are not weapons for the destruction of a creature with hoofs and horns, or a being of any sort.

A recognition of the distinction between the mortal counterfeit, or the man of dust, and the true man described in the first chapter of Genesis as created "in the image of God" is essential to an understanding of Christian Science, but as a newspaper article is hardly the place for an extended explanation of this Science, and those of your readers who so desire can obtain full information by reading Mrs. Eddy's work, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," I will not pursue the discussion further.

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