The Wahpeton times., 1917-09-27

SS "AASt AAASASSS, VI lldl
he was made perfect. Those STATE
ments are to be found in the first
chapter, and are used in relation to
the real man. But in spite of this,
people have gone on believing that
the Bible taught that Adam was
made in Gods image.
Christian Science is the only
system of teaching that | know
anything about that even makes
an attempt to explain the differ
ence between man and the Adam
man, and it does explain it and
makes the fact perfectly plain, by
pointing out, as has already been
said. that the Adam. mar is merel :
the false. material mis-concept OF
man. 1t is as though one were to
look through green eyeglasses. As
long as he did 50, everything would
appear to be green. If he were to
try to remove the green from an
object, he could not do so, for the
reason that the green was not in
the object, though appearing to be
there, but was in the lens through,
which he looked at it. The only
thing necessary for him to do in
order to translate the entire gree:
universe back into its normal as
,)ect would be merely TO take off thc
green lenses.
In precisely the same way the
material universe and material
man are translated back into the
spiritual, where in fact they have
always been by merely taking off.
the material eyeglasses through
which we have looked at them. If
it were conceivable that one could
now rid himself of every materia!
element in his mentality, and of
every sin and false belief, so thai
nothing remained in his consci-
"uness except the spiritualized
thought, he would not then see his
fellow man as material, but would
see him for what he really is, name
~. the perfect spiritual. child Of
God.
From the foregoning considera.
ton of the subject of man, and of
the difference between spiritual
man and the so-called material
man, it is obvious that there are
certain questions concerning the
nature and character of matter that
may be examined with much profit
Since the material man is only
the carnal minds mis-concept of
man, it follow that matter has no
entity, and is in every case nothing
but material thought objected
Christian Science shows that
"there is no life, truth, intellig.
ence, nor substance in matter. :
Science and Health. page 46S, lines
q and 10. and that. "NIatter has no
sensation ibid. 4s6. 3. Every
thing in the objective world. which,
appears to human sense as matter.
is merely the visible manifestation
Of material thought. formed i'm thc
material or carnal mind. and cog
nized by the physical senses as d
material thing. If these state
ments concerning matter be true il
will be seen at glance that they
will explain many phenomena in
human experience which hitherto
have been unexplainable. That they
are true is now settled absolutely
and conclusively, sa will be seen
When Mrs. Eddy first made the
discovery that matter in every
form has no intelligence, lifz sen.
sation. or substance, but is merely
the false mental concept of the
material or carnal mind, her state
ments were not accepted as true by
physical scientists. They decalred
that matter was real substance
They asserted that every object.
whether it be star. flower. q
rock, or the human body, was CON-
posed of atoms brought together
and held together under varying
conditions, and that the atom was
material. Hence, they said that
since the starting point of matter
was the material atom, matter must
of necessity be substance.
Mrs. Eddy took no pains to de-
fend her statements upon the SUB.
ject. She had seen the truth about
it and, knowing that it was the
truth, she was quite content to let
the statemen of her discovery 90
into consciousness. we'll knowing
that in the end the truth would
prevail. 1t is most interesting.
therefore, to observe what has tax
en- place since then. Within re-
cent years a physical scientist dis
covered that the atom is not the
starting point of matter. and thai
the atom is itself composed of elec-
irons. When asked to state the
nature and character of the elcc-
irons. he said that II Voc onoro,,