Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-09-26

the creation of Adam from the dust and of Eve from Adams side, as an amplificaton of that statement in the first chapter: "So God created man in his own image" But revelation plain ly shows the error of this. To begin with, the two records are distinctly separate documents, called the Flo histic and the Jehovistic, because in the first chapter the creator is call ed Elohim, God and in the second, Jehovah, or Lord God, the Jewish tribal name for Deity.
 The first record is positively closed. Gods work is done, His creation is good, and eternal harmony reigns. Do we find that God ever changed His perfect handiwork? Is there any rec ord of His having created evil? Mo-. Then whence came the evil, the sick ness, and the sorrow, the discord. and impeffection, which are visible on all sides? The sixth verse of the second chapter solves the problem. We read: "But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground
 The Mist.
 What does a mist do? Does it de- stroy, or demolish, or does it only ob- scure? Is it not possible then that the universe today is as perfect as when all was primeval harmony and that it's perfection is hid from our gaze by reason of some obscuring sense some "mystification" as Science and Health puts it? Material man with his sinful tendencies comes not upon the scene until the mist appears. It follows, therefore, that the evils and inharmonies which cannot belong to the kingdom of good must be the pro- duet of the realm of myst;fication. Now mystification is ever the polar opposite of understanding. Is not a mystified man man who does not understand? Therefore mystification means just this: ignorance. Ignorance of God. Spirit; ignorance of the spir- itual facts of being; ignorance of Gods perfect, beautiful harmonious creation, ignorance-ignorance-this then is the mist that seems to go up from the earth and hide from our sight the man and universe made and seen bv God. And from this ignorance of God came the Adam-man and the Eve-woman came this material sense of creation which reports man as ma terial, as shining sick and dying, and the universe as physical, discordant and destructible.
 As has been stated, the mission of Jesus was to reveal the understanding of mans spiritual being. In other words, he came to save humanity from this Adam or material sense of crea- tion by revealing the spiritual truth of being. Constantly did he teach his followers to look away from the world, from material sense, and to lay hold upon the things of Spirit. His teachings show unmistakably that the first chapter of Genesis and not the second, contains the truth of being and brings to light the spiritual real man of Gods creating. As Paul clear ly states, "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive"
 "Ye Must Be Born Again."
 One of the first of Jesus teachings was this: Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God" Can there be an atom of doubt as to the meaning of this passage :? If the material, the Adam-sense of things, constitutes Gods creation, why should the Master have declared that in order to see this creation, or king dom, a man must be born again-in other words, must gain radically diff ferent point of view?
 Paul makes it plain that this ma terial, fleshly sense of things is not of Gods creating, when he writes in Romans: "They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God" And Jesus drives home this fact with even greater clearness when he says, speaking of material man. "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do."
 Evil Not Power.
 Now we have learned that the Adam-view, or material concept, is a product of the mist, or mystification which ever goes up from the earth, from material premises, and we have further endeavored to show the mist to be synonymous with ignorance. Thus we arrive at another discovery teeming with good for the blind and fettered of earth. The devil-that terrifying element of the whole worlds religious belief, that mon- strous figment of the false teaching of the ages, against whose seeming power the sons of men have vainly striven, and who apparently has been able to outwit even the Most High this devil is ignorance, nothing more! Is ignorance a great forbidding mon strosity, with horns, hoofs, and a spear? Is it a mighty presence, an entity which has being and action and power? Or is it only an absence the absence of knowing? What peace may be ours when ye banish the be- lief that there is power in evil! With what courage can we face our prob lens when we realize that no subtle, destructive force is pitted against us, and that the only power evil can seem to have is that which we ourselves be- stow upon it.
 This truth is stated with great clear ness in a letter which Mrs. Eddy once wrote to a friend, which was quoted in The Christian Science Journal of August, 1912, in an article entitled "No Evil Power" :.
 "Did you but know the sublimity of x,ou. hone. the infinite canacitV of