ish thought--which
isn't your thought at all, but just thought that seems to be calling
itself 'you.' Jesus said, He that believeth on me, the works that I do
shall he do likewise. But that did not mean sitting back with folded
hands. It meant _understanding_ him; and knowing that there is no
power apart from the Christ-principle; and using that principle, using
it every moment, _hard_; and with it overcoming every thought that
doesn't come from God, every thought of the human mind, whether it is
called war, or sickness, or death!"

"Then evil can be thought away, _chiquita_?" He knew not why he
pursued her so relentlessly.

"No, Padre," she replied with a gentle patience that smote him. "No,
Padre. But it can be destroyed in the human mind. And when you have
overcome the habit of thinking the wrong way, evil will disappear.
That is the whole thing. That is what Jesus tried to make the people
see."

But Jose knew it. Yet he had not put it to the proof. He had gone
through life, worrying himself loose from one human belief, only to
become enslaved to another equally insidious. He knew that the cause
of whatever came to him was within his own mentality. And yet he knew,
likewise, that he would have to demonstrate this--that he would be
called upon to "prove" God. His faith without the works following was
dead. He felt that he did not really believe in power opposed to God;
and yet he did constantly yield to such belief. And such yielding was
the chief of sins. The unique Son of God had said so. He knew that
when the Master had said, "Behold, I give you power over all the
enemy," he meant that the Christ-principle would overcome every false
claim of the human mentality, whether that claim be one of physical
condition or action, or a claim of environment and event. He knew that
all things were possible to God, and likewise to the one who
understood and faithfully applied the Christ-principle. Carmen
believed that good alone was real and present. She applied this
knowledge to every-day affairs. And in so doing she denied reality to
evil. He must let go. He must turn upon the claims of evil to life and
intelligence. His false sense of righteousness _must_ give place to
the spiritual sense of God as immanent good. He knew that Carmen's
great love was an impervious armor, which turned aside the darts of
the evil one, the one lie. He knew that his reasoning from the premise
of mixed good and evil was false, and the results c