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...thinks and thinks right." Since the war, America and the world have failed for lack of courage and thinking. In these times ministers must think and show others how to think. It is their duty to bring to the people a conception of the worship of God...
...should like to avail myself of your columns for a few remarks on the new sheet, The Aristocrat. First of all let me suggest a more fitting motto: There is no god but classicism and Irving Babbitt is its prophet. For the editors might at least have been gracious enough to acknowledge those statements more obviously taken over from Professor Babbitt's writings and lectures...
...Christian Science regards as real only that which can be attributed to God, the only real cause, precluding any effect from any other cause. Evil, discord, sin and disease have no relation with God or his perfect creation, hence are unreal. All mankind, striving to be rid of evil, instinctively repudiates it in their thought as being unnatural, hence in the last analysis unreal. Though very real to the material sense, sin, sickness and discord, judged in the light of the spiritual sense of being which overrules and transcends material sense, are seen to be false claims about true life...
...Evil, then, is a false belief. For every fact one may suppose its opposite lie. The sum of evil is the lie about God, universal good. This lie ceases to have recognition or place when the truth is realized. Hence Jesus, calling evil a liar, pointed out liberation, saying, 'Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free'. This brief statement completely summarizes Christian Science practice and is the law directing all human progress...
...have awakened to the unreality of one concept, as old as the human species, namely that of autocracy, in its aggressive political phases. Therefore every one should awaken to the unreality of every evil concept, all sin and disease, and cast it out of his consciousness. God is not on the side of cancer or influenza any more than of autocracy. Even greater than our right to political self-government is our right and ability to resist and overthrow the attempts of evil to rule us boldly and mentally...