The Wahpeton times., 1917-09-27
MIR. STRlCKLER ON
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Continued from last week

Continued from last week
Sooner or later every one must
learn the truth about man. When
one asks himself, who is man /?
what is he? where does he come
from? is he spiritual, or is he mat.
erial. many channels for thought
are opened. Upon the correct an.
swer to these questions will depend
the solution Of every human prob
lem.
Every one has read the two diff
fering accounts of creation in the
Bible. In the first chapter of Gen.
esls we are told that God create,
man in His own image, after Mis-
own likeness, and that He made
him good. In the second chapter
Of Genesis, however. we find the a..
legorlcal account of h wv God came
to this earth and made man ont Of
the dust of the ground then fol.
lows the story of Adam and Eve,
and the garden of Eden. We al
SO read that a deep sleep fell upon
Adam, and then that sin appeared
and brother murdere ! rother, and
81, from that time un,,l now, the
nan made Of dust mas been a sin.
ner and has been a: enu,ity against
God.
In view of all of this it becomes
vitality important that we find out
the truth about man. Was man
made in the imange and likeness
OF God, and hence created a spir.
tual being, or was he made out OF
the dust of the ground as a mater.
ial being
Christian Science accepts the
first account of the creation as tru..
and insists that man is spiritual,
and not material. This makes il
necessary for Christian Science tc
explain how it is possible for man
to be wholly spiritual when we
seem to see him as flesh and blood
with our actual physical eyes. Chr.
istian Science does this, and makes
it perfectly clear bv showing tina,
the material man is nothing more
or less than the carnal minds falls,
concept Of man.
The carnal mind is entirely mate
llal, hence. it sis enmity agains.
God,' because God is Spirit and
Spirit and matter are opposite.
"arnal mind is composed of the ay.
created beliefs founded upon the
testimony of the five physical sene
es, which senses are wholly mate
rial, hence, the carnal mind being
material cannot comprehend non
cognlze the things of Spirit. \
1T is these material elements en-
terlng into the human mind tha.
cause it to See everything as mater
lal and to think in terms of mat
ter. BY an inevitable reveal il re-
duces everything to the dead levc
Ct matter in order TO comprehen!
it.
1t is due to this materially tina,
the human mind does not think of
God wholly as Spirit, and, there
fore, in its material .eiief. it rever-
ses the nature and character of God
and converts Him into a material
man. Likewise, because of this
same material element, the human
mind does not think of the king
dom of God as spiritual state OF
consciousness. which Jesus declae
ed "is within you,'' and trans.
firms it in belief into a material
place somewhere in the sky, with
trappings of material splendor
such as one would expect to find IL,
the palaces of men.
Since the human mind is pre-
vented by its own materiality from
comprehending God as Spirit and
the kingdom of heaven as a spirit
cal state of consciousness. it is eou.
ally prevented from thinking of
man as spiritual. BY reason of tho
same inevitable reversal it thinks
OF man as material and hence sees
him as such.
But no matter how sincerely peo
pie may believe that God is a mag.
nified man. seated upon the mater1-
al throne, and having a material
habitation in material place cal.
led heaven, such belief does not
make it true. God is Spirit. and
His universe is wholly spiritual
There is not one material element
in Him nor in anything that He
created. He did not create mat.
ter in any form nor did He create
everything spiritually and not mat
erially. and the only kind of man
created by Him is the perfect spil..
itual man, made in His own image
and likeness, precisely as describ-
ed in the first chapter of Genesis.