Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1913-05-07

1 ed authority; it sets man free iron fear of evil, and gives him working hypothesis by which he may destro! | it.
 CREATION
 The subject of creation is also OF about which there is much misunier ! standing. l have found that many people do not know that there alt l two accounts of the creation in lhe | Bible. The first account is to be | found in the first chapter of Genesis down to and including the third verge of the second chapter. Beginrin2 with the fourth verse of the second chapter there follows a second ac' count that is wholly different from the first. In the first chapter we are told that God created everything, and that He made it good. and lastly that He made man in His own image. and after His own likeness, and that He
  and over all that it contained.
 The second account contains the allegory about God coming down to earth and mixing up dust and calling it man. In the second account We have the story of Adam and Eve and the Garden of Eden. Then we are told that a mist went up from the earth and after that sin apeared, and brother killed brother. and froIn that time to the present the man made of dust has been sinner aud has been at enmity with God.
 The great difference between Chris tian Science and all other systems Of religious teaching is that Christian Science accepts the first account of the creation as true, while all others accept the second account as the basis and foundation upon which they build. All through the centuries the trouble has been that people have regarded the Adam man as being the real man created by God in His i'm age and likeness, and have tried to make the goodness and omnipotence of God fit the creation of a sinner.
 Christian Science maintains that man was made in the image and like ness of God, and that he is spiritual and not material. To believe that God made man of dust is to make God responsible for all the sin and misery that have filled the world from the beginning of time. Such a belief is and is neither supported by the Scripture nor by reason. It dishonors God and degrades mortals. and the best proof that it is erron- delivered men from either sickness or sin.
 As time goes on humanity exhibits an ever decreasing interest in theo- ries about God that are not helpful and practical. This tendency has been deplored by the churches as in dicating a loss of interest in religion, but it is not so. It indicates a tre- mendous desire for religion that is practical.
 THIS IS AN AGE OF PRACTICAL
 THINGS
 The chief difference between the civilization of the present time and the civilizations that have existed in the past, is to be found in the desire for practical things. The Greeks, for instance, attained a high degree of culture. They excelled in archi- lecture, painting, sculpture, oratory, in the drama, and in all forms of prose composition, but with all their culture they never invented a single labor saving machine. They knew nothing of electricity or of the appli- cation of steam, never had a cooking stove, a sewing machine, or any of luc SlIlDlGSt COIlN NtultHCCS llidl Sll C enjoyed today by every one
 In our own time the demand is for practical things A thing is valua- ble in proportion as it is useful No one has any time for theories, and if a man has theory he must try it out for himself. and prove it's utility before any one will listen to him.
 The demand for practical things also demands religion that is prac- tical. People are no longer satisfied with theories about what is to hap pen in another world. What is desir- ed is demonstration religion that saves from present troubles-from sickness, and sin, and failure, and unhappiness. and the countless ills of everyday human eXperience-and if there is a religion that will do that it can be safely trusted for the future