Article July 7, 1923 Issue

In Lamentations we read, "Out of the mouth of the most...

Miss Blanche Stievenard, Committee on Publication for Hertfordshire, England,—Letchworth

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In Lamentations we read, "Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good;" and Christ Jesus said, "Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up." He spent the time of his ministry on earth rooting up and casting out sin, sickness, and death. They were to him plants which his heavenly Father had not planted; and he did not stay to consider where they came from, but evidently regarded them as the lies of superfluous nothingness, to be replaced by the great truth of God's perfect creation. This, he said, was the truth which would make men free. His definition of evil as a lie and the father of lies is the only one to accept. To persist in asking for the origin of that which can be proved to be a lie, or to suppose that a lie has its origin in truth, is futile, and in no way helps to redeem the world.

The divine logic, which reveals the allness of God and the nothingness of evil, is the light that shines in darkness, but which the darkness of material thinking cannot comprehend. Those who begin to understand it find it most illuminating, as in the days of Jesus and his disciples, and it is to them the light of Truth, which they are proving to be allpowerful in the overcoming of sin and disease. And so once more, to reason correctly, since God and His ideas are all that really exist, it must follow that error is destitute of real existence, and is only a seeming delusion, which must vanish from consciousness. It is impossible to repudiate Truth; and error is self-destructive. Our privilege is to love all who love good, and to leave each other free to work out the problem of salvation.

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