The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1918-03-05


all truth. "And God saw every thing
that he had made. and. behold, it was
very good" The second chapter opens
with this statement: THUS the heav-
ems and the earth we're finished, and
all the the host OF them" Could words
he more plain? Creation ia finished.
and it is good, yea, very good" No
evil has been created. no sickness. sin.
or death. DO you realize, also that
the man mentioned in the first chap
ter, is not made OF the dust OF the
ground. but In the image and likeness
OF God? In other words. he Is made
God like. and as God is Spirit, the
man of His creating must be spiritual.
| Remarkable Discovery Of Christian
Science.
| Now comes the remarkable and rev.
dictionary discovery Of Christian
Science. The second chapter Of Gen.
esis, containing the Adam and Eve
narrative. Is seen to he u new and
different record Of creation. separate
and distinct from that covered Ia the
preceding chapter. Heretofore re-
ligionists have regarded the record Of
f, the creation of Adam from the dust
and of Eve from Adams side. as an
amplification Of that statement in the
first chapter: $50 God created man in
his own image" But revelation
plainly shows the error Of this. To
begin with. the two records are dis
tinctly separate documents, called the
Elohistic and the Jehovistic, because
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Jehovah. or Lord God, the Jewish
tribal name for Deity.
The first record Ii positively closed.
Gods work il done. His creation Is
good, and eternal harmony reigns. DO
perfect hnndiwork Ii there any record
os His having created evil? No. Then
whence came the evil. the sickness,
and the sorrow. the discord and inn
perfection. which are visible on all
sides? The sixth verse OF the second
chapter solves the problem. We read
"But there went up q mist from the
earth. and watered the whole face OF
the ground"
Tho Mist.
What does q mist do? Does 1t de-
stroy, or demolish. or does 1t only oh
scure? Is IL not possible then that the
universe today In az perfect an when
all was primeval harmony and that
Its perfection In hid from our gaze
by reason OF some obscuring sense
- some ''mystification" as Science
and Health puts IL? Material man with
his sinful tendencies comes not upon
the scene until the mist appears. 1t
follows, therefore. that the evils and
inharmonies which cannot belong to
the Kingdom OF good must be the
product OF the realm Of mystification.
Now mystification is ever the polar OPP
posite OF understanding. Is not a mys-
titled man man who does not under
stand? Therefore mystificatiion means
just this: ignorance. Ignorance OF
God, Spirit; Ignorance OF Gods per-
feet, beautiful harmonious creation. ig-
norance- -ignorance-this then IL the
mist that seems to go up from the
earth and hide from our sight the man
and universe made ana seen ny 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 material. as
SHINING sick and dying. and the uni
verse az physical, discordant and de-
structible.
/ 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-
ton by revealing the spiritual truth
OF being. Constantly did he teach his
followers to look away from the
world. from material sense, and Ia
lay hold upon the things of Spirit
His teachings show Enthusiastically that
the first chapter Of Genesis and not
the second. contains the truth of be-
ing and brings to light the spiritual
real man Of Gods creating. AS Pau
clearly states. AS in Adam IAN die
ieven so in Christ shall all be made
alive"
aye 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
IL the material. the Adam sense OF
things, constitutes Gods creation, VIII,
should. the Master have declared tha
In order to see this creation, or king
dom, man must be born again-ir
other words. must gain a radically DIFF
ferent point OF view?
i Paul makes II plain that this ma
terial. neshly sense of things liz not o
Gods creating, when he writes II
Romans: "They which are the chill
dren of the flesh. these are not the chill
dren OF Cod And Jesus drives hom
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 ye will
do"
Evil Not pewsr.
Now we have learned that tn
Adam view, or material concept. II
, product Of the mist, or mystificatio
which ever goes up from the earti
|, from material premises, and we hav
further endeavored to show the mis-
to be synonymous with ignoranc,
, Thus we arrive at another discover
, teeming with good for the blind an
, fettered OF earth. The devil--tha
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