The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1917-01-12


from the earth and hide from our
sight the man and the universe made
and seen by God; and from this ig-
norance springs the material view Of
creation which depicts man as sick
and SHINING, and the universe as dis
cordant and destructible.
Garden of Eden Allegory.
The Adam and Eve narrative, sym
bolizing as it does materiality, sin,
and sins unhappy consequences, is
called in the textbook only ian OBJ
ject lesson for the human mind"
(Science and Health, page 214), in
which you and are shown the sad re-
suits of departure from the spiritual
sense of things recorded in the first
chapter. That the story is fable, is
self-evident. The references to the
''tree of life" in the garden, and the
stree of knowledge of good and evil,
stamp it as allegory. Then, too, the in
PRODUCTION of a talking serpent fur
ther indicates fiction. A serpent
able to converse in the simplest Of
languages would indeed be marvel
but one speaking the ancient tongue
of Adam and Eve could be nothing
short of myth!
Mans True Ancestry.
How has the suffering human fam.
lily been imposed upon! Handed dowr
from generation to generation has
been the mischievous fallacy that this
second record of creation is an his
torical fact! How have we been de-
ceived into calling ourselves descend
ants of these fictitious beings, made Of
mist and dust, and prone to every
known mortal weakness! The mission
of Jesus was to acquaint humanity
with mans true heritage. His teach
ings prove that the first chapter o.
Genesis, and not the second, contains
the truth of being and sets forth man.
real origin.
aye Must Be Born Again."
One of the first of Jesus teachings
was this: Except a man be borr
again, he cannot see the kingdom O
God" Can there be an atom of doub
as to the meaning of this passage
If the material, the Adam-senses o.
things, constitutes Gods creation
why should the Master have de
clared that in order to see this ere
alton, or kingdom, a man must b
born again-in other words, mus
gain a radically different point O.
view?
Paul makes it plain that this ma
terial, fieshly sense of things is no
of Gods creating, when he writes II
Romans: "They which are the chill
dren of flesh, these are not the chill
dren of God" And Jesus drives HON,
this fact with even greater clearnes
when he says, speaking of materia
man, aye are of your father the devil
and the lusts of your father We viii
do"
Evil Not Power.
| Now we have learned that tn
| Adam-view, or material concept, is
product of the mist, or mystificatiol
which ever goes up from the earth
from material premises, and we hav
further endeavored to show the mist t
be synonymous with ignorance. Thu
we arrive at another discovery TEEN
ing with good for the blind and fet
tered of earth. The devil-that ter
rifying element of the whole world
religious belief, that monstrous fig
ment of the false teaching Of the ages
against whose seeming power tn
sons of men have vainly striven, an,
who apparently has been able to out
wit even the Most High--this devil
| ignorance, nothing more! Is ignor
ance a great forbidding .monstrosity
with horns, hoofs, and a spear? Is
a mighty presence, an entity whicl
has being and action and power? o
| is it only an absence-the absence o
knowing? What peace may be our
when we Danish the belief that Their
is power in evil! With what courag
can we face our problems when W
realize that no subtle, destructiv
force is pitted against us, and tina
the only power evil can seem to hav
is that which we ourselves bestow up
on it.
This truth is stated with grea
clearness in letter which Mrs. Ed
dy once wrote to a friend, which wa
quoted in The Christian Science Jour
nal of August, 1912, in an article en-
titled "No Evil Power"
"Did you but know the sublimity o
your hope; the infinite capacity O
your being; the grandeur Of your out
look, you would let error kill itself
Error comes to you for life, and yol
give it all the life it has"
How Jesus Healed the Sick.
We are now ready to consider on
of the most important paragraphs il
Science and Health, for it may be sait
to contain the pearl of great price"
1t tells us in the simplest of word
how Jesus healed the sick.
"Jesus beheld in Science the per
feet man, who appeared to him wher'
SHINING mortal man appears to NOR
tails. In this perfect man the Saviour
saw Gods own likeness, and this cor
rect view of man healed the sick
Thus Jesus taught that the kingdom
of God is intact, universal, and tina
man is pure and holy" (Science ant
Health, page 476).
This then must have been the un
Outstanding which Jesus impaired t.
his disciples, which enabled them Il
duplicate his wonderful healing work
This is the understanding which to
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