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"mind of the Spirit," spiritual understanding," also "truth." Some of the Biblical names for evil are "fleshly mind," "carnal mind," also "error," "deceit," and the like. Christ Jesus defined evil as "evil thoughts." He resolved all of "the things which defile a man into thoughts that are evil. Nor did he leave the subject there. If evil thoughts were not different and separate from true consciousness, there would be no deliverance from them. Hence we have his further description of evil as a liar or lie, and his emphatic statement that there is no truth in it (John viii. 44).

Such being the nature of good and evil, the scene of the warfare between Spirit and flesh must be the so-called human mind, the consciousness of both good and evil. This must be the meeting-point where evil can be overcome with good. Here is where the errors of material sense can be corrected with the truth of spiritual sense.

The Hebrew proverb is scientific: "Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." Evil appears and disappears only in the so-called human mind. The kingdom of God is in the consciousness which he creates-that is, the consciousness of absolute good.

It was nothing less, therefore, than the practice of Christian Science which Paul and Peter summed up in their precepts: "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus;" "Arm yourselves likewise with the same mind." This true mentality, this spiritual thinking, is godliness itself, and we are warned in the Bible against denying the power of godliness. Doing that, we are told, is resisting the truth.

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Finally, brethren," says Mrs. Eddy, on page 6 of Christian Science Versus Pantheism," "let us continue to denounce evil as the illusive claim that God is not supreme and continue to fight it until it disappears, but not as one that beateth the mist, but lifteth his head above it and putteth his foot upon a lie."

To illustrate: An act that culminates in murder must first take form in human thought. The gist of sin, as pointed out in the Sermon on the Mount, is the yielding to a sinful impulse. The temptation or incentive to sin is always mental; it is almost always a false sense of pleasure in evil.

The only positive cure for sin is the truth

relative to the illusion back of it. Sin is a thing of thought-false thought; it must be overcome on that basis, and this can be done most effectually at the point of its inception. Detected and rejected there, the evil neither enters into character nor is expressed in action.

Can it be said, then, that Christian Science calls men off from an intelligent campaign against evil ?

Christian Science changes its students into better men and women, not only by giving them true motives, pure desires, and absolute ideals, but also by discovering to them the deceptive nature of evil impulses and the source and power of good thoughts.

In like manner this Science equips its students for the cure and prevention of disease. It teaches them to analyze the conflicting elements of human consciousness and to maintain the true sense of being against the false sense of disorder, thus destroying the essential cause of disease and establishing the conditions of health.

So also the power of divine Mind, acting with true thoughts or truth, is found to be available in every case of human need. As the Psalmist said, "His truth shall be thy shield and buckler."

In a word, the aim of Christian Science is to induce and enable men to realize their rightful freedom and God-given manhood. CLIFFORD P. SMITH,

Of the Committee on Publication,
First Church Christ Scientist.

Boston, Massachusetts.

IMPRACTICAL IDEALISM

Your article in The Outlook of July 25, entitled "Why I Am Not a Christian Scientist," seems to me so just and reasonable that I desire to have it constantly by me until I have memorized the argument. In my personal experience the Christian Scientists seem to lay reason completely aside from the very beginning of their investigation of the matter. They learn later that the words used by the cult do not mean what they do mean to others, i. e., "to cure" is not to heal, but to make one resigned and cheerful in that state of body which we call sickness.

Will not a diligent study of the Bible do the same? I thank you sincerely for your article. L. S. WATERMAN.

Newburyport, Massachusetts.

A DARK SIDE OF WAR:

WIVES OF BELGIAN SOLDIERS WAITING TO RECEIVE THEIR PITTANCE
FROM THE GOVERNMENT

These poor women are said to receive, to help support their families in the absence of the breadwinner, the pitiful sum of from 50 to 65 centimes weekly (10 to 12% cents)