Article August 24, 1912 ISSUE

DISPELLING EVIL

BLANCHE HERSEY HOGUE.

Meteorologists were somewhat interested at one time, it is said, in a possible device for dispelling tornadoes—something to establish a counteraction and prevent or scatter the approaching storm. Could such a thing be accomplished, it would well illustrate the relation of Christian Science teaching and treatment to the mental storms of humanity; for this Science brings to light the need for intelligently employing prayer to dispel all manifestations of evil, and it establishes the sure method by which this may be done. In Science and Health (p. 332) we read of the Christ-idea "speaking to the human consciousness. ... dispelling the illusions of the senses; ... healing the sick and casting out evils, destroying sin, disease, and death."

The nature of Christian Science treatment makes it inevitably a destroyer of evil; for this treatment is prayer based upon the omnipotence and omnipresence of God, and it reckons with good only as the fact of creation. The thoughts embodied therein are divine in origin; whatever is human, personal, or material is properly no part of the treatment. Right prayer is inspired by the divine Mind, inasmuch as such prayer is the declaration of the almighty and invincible presence of God. It comes in answer to that outreaching right desire which opens the way to the intelligent and satisfying contemplation of God and His works as they really are.

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