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FIRST LECTURE ON
 CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
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spiritual, righteous, unchanging, and eternal. Christian Science declares that God is the Principal of His cre- atiCn; hence the conscious, energiz- the universe, whose law means the completeness, perfection and harmon ious operation of all that is. It de- clares that He is infinite Love; hence He is compassionate, merciful, tender, warm, comforting, true. In word, it teachers that God. our heavenly Father, is All in all.
 Having thus briefly indicated some thing of what Christian Science teaches about God, next in importance naturally follows what it teaches con- corning man as the offspring or son of God We are told that the man whom God made was a good man, and inion over all the earth. That is, that everywhere the spiritual creation or divine emanation should be recogniz- ed, dominate, and made manifest. Our authority for this is found in the first chapter of the Bible, wherein is re- lated the facts concerning the spirit ual creation, the complete and finish ed work of Deity"
 "The True and False Creation.
 Tn this connection Christian Science calls attention to the fact of the existence of two distinct and widely differing records of the crea tion, and insists that they bear DO relation to each other. The first le- cord clearly indicates the creating or revealing by an omnipotent and omni- scient God of an absolutely perfect and everlasting universe. In it's an- alysis of this account Christian Science uses the term man in gen. eric sense as meaning the full, com- plete, and perfect reflection of God: His divine image or manifestation. which includes every idea that ex-
 
 true, invisible, and eternal selfhood.
 Now, reason tells us that emana- tions from infinite and unchanging good musct be perfect, and the con- clusion is irresistible that perfect creation governed by the very law of perfection is incapable of change or dot Snio c unequivoeally to the first record of creation as it appears in the inspired writings, and contends that it is con- sistently true and real, and shows that the record contained in the sec ond chapter of Genesis, in which man is represented as having been formed of the dust of the ground and named Adam, is antagonistic to the first, hence is inconsistent, false and un- real.
 Moreover, specific examination and comparison of these two records discloses the perfection and complete ness of the first record of creation at tributed to God (Elohim) and the im- perfection of the alleged creation by the Lord God (Jehovah) as chronicled in the second account. It will be observed, too, that the second record indicates that Adam, formed of the dust of the ground, was the man who is represented as having suffered de- filement by evil, and not the perfect man whom God created. Moreover, it is significant that Adam defilement or fall is recorded as having been procured by evil, characterized as the subtlety of the serpent, fellow creature and associate of Adam
 Evil Exists Only as Lie.
 While no reasonable or satisfactory explanation as to the origin of evil or the devil appears in the Bibe, or has ever been formulated by theologians, yet we note that modern Christianity is founded upon the assumed existence of definite evil being which theol- oby claims caused the downfall of Gods perfect mana Self-eVldent lm- possibility. Very recently a religious writer, in discussing this question from the standpoint of scholastic theology, made the sweeping assertion that the whole Christian superstruc- ture is built upon the belief in a defi- nite evil being who brought about the fall of man. This same writer fur ther ayers: Destroy the devid, and We at once destroy all reason for mans present deplorable condition,' and asks the strange question: Are we willing to endanger the whole Chris tian superstructure by removing foundation-stone?
 Thus this writer makes the unique claim that the doctrine of the verity and power of evil is essentially