Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-22

NSOS hOtJ hOWCNSit IS1tI W u llHll
mind, generally associated with tn,
human brain, nor does it refer to
soul that is supposed to reside else
where in the human body, but it refer
to man as the individual spiritua
image, reflection, or idea of divin,
Mind, God. Mrs Eddy says on pagt
AIS of Science and Health, MAN il
idea, the image, of Love; he is mo-
physique" A modern dictionary def
milton of idea is, "That which embodies
the essential nature of something
So man as the idea of God, or divine
Mind, is that which consciously an6
perfectly reflects, expresses, mani
tests, or embodes the divine nature
And this agrees with the Scriptural
record of creation contained in the
first chapter of Genesis, for there il
says that God made man in His own
image. But the seventh verse of the
second chapter of Genesis says that
the Lord God formed man of the dust
of the ground, and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life " The rec
ord of creation contained in the first
chapter of Genesis and the account
beginning with the seventh verse of
the second chapter are so different as
to be absolutely irreconcilable.
TRUE AND FALSE CREATION
The first record of creation declares
that "the heavens and the earth were
finished, and all the host of them. -
This finished universe of God is said
to have been recognized by Him as
being every good" This very good
and complete universe, according to
the record, included man created "in
the image of God" The second and
materiahstic account of creation is the
very opposite Of the spiritual record
which precedes it. Man, insteGd of
being the image of the eternal God, is
said to have been made of temporal
matter. In this story it is not even
claimed that man is the likeness of
God. Man who in the first chapter is
recorded as part of Gods perfect,
finished creation, is here supposed to
have been re-created or remodeled
from clay. But why divinely intelli-
gent creator would have need to re-
model perfectly good universe or
any part thereof is not explained.
If one accepts the first record of
creation he will be obliged to reject
the second account if he would be
logical. Christian Science accepts the
first or Elohistic record as a statement
of spiritual creation, and explains the
second or Jehovistic account as an
allegory evidently intended by its
author to depict the belief in a. mate
rial creation. That Christian believers
in general and theologians in partic-
ular pay much more attention to the
mythical account than to the scientific
record is to be regretted. Their
emphasis in sermons and otherwise
is frequently laid upon what they
term "fallen" man. The tenacious
belief in this myth with its " dust
man, )" created by an anthropomorphic
God, is responsible for all the ills to
which flesh is heir. Mortal history is
little more than recital of the woes,
suit from failure to discriminate be-
tween the true and the false. The |
naturalness and inevitability |
If disease and death are due primarily |
20 a false, material sense of mans |
origin and nature. Whereas the under
standing that man is the spiritually |
created and immortal likeness of
livine Mind makes freedom from these
wills certain. According to Christian
Science nothing is really natural but
yood, and nothing is inevitable but
he triumph of good.
PUTTING OFF THE OLD MAN
4In
icy, the omnipotence of good, Chris
ian Scientists are proving step by
tep their ability to comply with
he injunction of Paul to "put off the
I'D man" (the mortal, material, sim
ul sense of man), and to "put on the
lew man" (the immortal, spiritual,
inless manhood), which "is created
n righteousness and true holiness. +"
n this endeavor they are finding that
heir success is in proportion to the
and persistence with
which they return in thought to the
fact which is the basis
f all right thinking and living,
amely, that when God made all that
5 and pronounced it every good, :"
Ie made man in His likeness: and
hat nothing has since happened or
ill ever happen to unmake or undo
ODDS perfect work The writer of
cclesiastes said: al know that, what ;
oever God doeth, it shall be for ever: :
othing can be put to it, nor any thing 1,
lken from it, And on page 557 of n
cience and Health Mrs Eddy says: !
Divine Science rolls back the clouds /,
E error with the light of Truth, and !
fits the curtain on man as never
orn and as never dying, but as CO. +
listent with his creator" IL
According to Christian Science the 4
1tting on of immortality is not neees-
Lrily deferred until after passing 4
trough an experience called death, .
1t may begin now and must continue
It'll the perfect recognition of the i'm u
ortality and supremacy of Life dis y
aces all belief in the existence of n
which is the opposite of u
Lfe-iR sin, disease, death. n
Christian Scientists admit that to :,
Iman, or mortal sense, evil and mat 4
r appear real, but Christian Science :,
,rees exactly with the prophet Habak f,
TX, that God is "of purer eyes than II
behold evil'' It explains that man 4
the perfect likeness of God cannot Il
low something which God does not "
low And Christian Science shows E,
3ab ss ;nfipito