The Alaska citizen., 1917-08-06

 ter than merely to state the case, lt will thus be- seen that there Is much confusion of belief among Christians and other monotheists concerning th" nature and origin of both good and evil and as to what causes their ac- tvity in human experience, and until this is corrected by positive knowl- edge it will be impossible 10 deal with the subject intelligenuy, or 10 think about it accurately.
 Christian Science shows that all good comes 10 man from God through the operation of His laws, and that evil originates in the human carnal mind. which is "enmity against God. Evil is not an entity. It has no king dom and no king. It has no mind, no presence. and no laws. The only power il can ever exercise is what il derives from human belief in it. and human acceptance of it.
 Sooner or later every one must learn the truth about man. When one asks himself, who is man? what is he where does b. come from? Is he spiritual, or is he material? many channels for thought are opened. Upon the correct answer to these questions will depend the solution of every human problem.
 Every one has read the two differ ing accounts of creation in the Bible. In the first chapter of Genesis We are told that God created man in His own image, after His own like ness. and that He made him good. In the second chapter of Genesis, however we find the allegorical ac- Irount of how God came to this earth land made man out of the dust Of the ground. Then follows the story .of Adam and Eve. and the garden Ing Eden. We also read that deep sleep fell upon Adam, and then that .sjn appeared and brother murdered brother and so, from that time untI now. the man made of dust has been Ia sinner and has been at enmlty Iagainst God.
 In view of all of this it becomes yitally important that we find out the truth about man, Was man made in the image and likeness o1 God, and hence created splrltual being or was he made out of the dust of the ground as maternal being?
 Christian Science accepts the first Iaccount of the creation as true, and insists that man is spiritual, and not material. This makes it necessary for Christian Science to explain now it is possible for man to be wholly spiritual when We seem to see nm as flesh and blood with our actual physical eyes Christian Science does this, and makes it perfectly clear by showing that the material man IS nothing more or less than the car nal minds false concept of man.
 The carnal mind is entirely ma Iterial hence. it "s enmity against God" because God is Spirit and Spirit and matter are opposite. The carnal mind is composed of the az gregated beliefs founded upon the Testimony of the five physical senses, which senses are wholly material hence. the carnal mind being material cannot comprehend nor cognize the things of Spirit.
 Ii is these material clements en- tering into the human mlnd thaI cause it to see everything as materlal and to think in terms of matter, By an inevitable reversal it reduces eN- orything to the dead level of matter in order to comprehend 1t.
 The Adam Man.
 But no matter how sincerely peo- pIc may believe that God is mag nifird man. seated upon a material throne, and having 8 material habl-
 I 1la heaven such belief does not make il true. God is Spirit, and His uni verse is wholly spiritual. There IS not one material element m ilhl nor in anything that He created. He did not create matter ln any form, nor did He create material man God created everything SpllltuallS and not materially, and the only kind of man created by Him IS the nerfect spiritual man, made in Ills own image and likeness, precisely as described in the first chapter ol Genesis.
 The Adam-man is not the image of God and in the second account of the creation in the second chapter of Genesis 1t IS nowhere stated that the Adamman was made m Goa image and likeness, or that he was made perfect Those statements are to be found in the first chapter, ana are used in relation to the real man. But in spite of this, people nave gone on believing that the Bible taught that Adam was made in God image.
 From the foregoing consideration of the subject of man, and or the difference between spiritual man ana the so-called material man, it is ob- vious that there are certain ques- Itions concerning the nature and char acter of matter that may De eX- amined with much profit
 Matter.
 nee the material man is only the carnal minds misconcept o1 man. it follows that matter has no entity, and is in every case nothing but material thought Objecufed. Christian Science shows that there is no life, truth, intelligence, nor substance in matter" Science ana Health, page 46S, lines 9 and 10, and that, Matter has no sensation, ibid. 4S5, 3. Everything in the ob- iective world which appears to hu- man sense as matter, is merely the visible manifestation of material thought. formed in the material or carnal mind, and cognized by the physical senses as a material thlng