Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1917-02-14

was born of Mary. Christ is the true
idea Voicing good, the divine message
from God to man speaking to human
consciousness" page 332, lines to II.
Jesus demonstrated Christ; he proved
that Christ is the divine idea Of God
the Holy Ghost, or Comforter, revealing
the Divine Principle. Love. and leading
into all TRUTH page $780, lines 10 to %.
Christian Scientists. therefore. are
not looking for the second. coming of |
the man, Jesus. His work was finished
when he assembled SO high into the
realm of Spirit that the people could no |
longer see him as q material man. The
Christ Truth, however. is here now ana |
always, continually knocking at the
door of every human consciousness |
seeking to comfort those who are in dis
tress to supply the needs of those who |
are in want to heal those who are sick, |
to lift the burdens from those who are |
heavy laden, and thus to perform the |
office of mediator by bringing mankind |
into relationship with God. This Evan
gel is the Christ. the eternal, ever pres
ent Comforter
John said. I'm the beginning was the
Wordo and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God. The same WIS in
the beginning with Cod" (John l. I, 2.)
The Word is the eternal Christ Truth,
and not material personality.
All who believe that flesh and blood
says. Now this l say. brethren, flesh
and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of
| God" Il. Cor XIV. 50.)
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, CIR
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 differing
accounts of the creation in the Bible
| In the first chapter of Genesis we are
told that God created man in His own
| image, and after His own likeness, and
| that He made him good. In the second
chapter of Genesis, however, we find the
| categorical account of how God came to
this earth. and made man out of the
| dust Of the ground. Then follows the
story of Adam and Eve, and the garden
Of Eden. We also read that deep
sleep fell upon Adam, and then that
sin appeared and brother murdered bro
Their, and so, from that time until now,
the man made Of dust has been a sin
ner and has been at enmity against God.
In view of all of this it becomes Wit
ally important that we find out the
truth about man. Was man made in the
image and likeness of God and hence
created a spiritual being, or was he
made out of the dust of the ground as
a material being?
Christian Science accepts the first ac-
count of the creation as true, and in
sists that man is spiritual and not ma
terial. This makes it necessary for
Christian Science to explain the mat
ter, and to make plain 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. Christian
oil nd koC no ma for
perfectly clear by showing that the ma
) terial man is nothing more or less than
the carnal minds false concept Of man.
The carnal human mind is entirely
material, hence, it lis enmity against
) Cod" because God is Spirit and Spirit
: and matter are opposite. The carnal
mind is composed of the aggregated be-
: liefs 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.
: 1t is these material elements CON-
posing the human mind that cause it
! to see everything material. Being
material it thinks in terms of matter,
and is incapable of thinking in terms
: of Spirit. By an inevitable reversal it
2 reduces everything to the dead level CT
matter in order to comprehend it.
1t is due to this materially that the
2 God wholly as Spirit, and, therefore, in
r it's material belief. it reverses the nat
! ure and character of God, and converts
Him into material man. seated upon
a material throne up in the sky. Like
WISE because of this same material ele-
ment, the human mind is incapable of
! thinking of the kingdom of God as spir-
. itual state of consciousness, which Je-
t sus declared lis within you," and trans
forms it in belief into a material place
e somewhere in the sky, with trappings
!, of material splendor such as one would
8 expect to find in the palaces of men.
h Since the human mind, is prevented by
e it's own materiality from even compre.
: bending God as Spirit and the kingdom
Y of Heaven as a spiritual state Of con.
e seriousness, it is equally incapable OF
|. thinking Of man as a spiritual being
e By reason Of the same inevitable rever.
v sal it thinks of man as material, and
hence sees him such.
s But no matter how sincerely people
= may believe that God is a magnified
e man, seated upon material throne, and
S having a material habitation in a ma
f does not make it true God is Spirit
n and His universe is wholly spiritual
There is not one material element in
y Him nor in anything that He created
E He did not create matter in any form
: nor did He create material man. God
9 created everything spiritually and not
S materially. and the only kind of man
e created by Him was the perfect spirit
e ual man, made in His own image and
y likeness, precisely as described in the
: first chapter of Genesis.
2 The Adam-man is not the image of
i God and it is nowhere stated in the sec
! ond account Of the creation in the Sec
= ond chapter of Genesis that the Adam
. man was made in Gods image and like
= ness, or that he was made perfect
: Those statements are to be found in
the first chapter, and are used in rela-
= ton to the real man. But in spite of
n this people have gone on believing that
$ the Bible taught that Adam was made
E in Gods image.
Christian Science is the only system
S OF teaching that I know anything about
+ that even makes an attempt to explain
1 the difference between man and the
:: Adam-man, and it does explain it and
Q makes it perfectly plain, by pointing
+ out as has already been said that the
Adam-man is merely the false, mater
lal mls-cOncept of man. It is as tho
o one were to look through green eye
. glasses. AS long as he I'd so, every
+ thing would appear to be green If he
e were to try to remove the green from
: an object, he would not do so, for the
I reason that the green was not in the
S object though appearing to be there
but was in the lens through which he
t looked at it. The only thing necessary
entire green universe back into it's nor
e NAL aspect, would be merely to take
Y off the green lenses.
In precisely the same way the mate
l rial universe and material man are
| translated back into the spiritual, where