The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-08-06
LECTURER EXPLAINS
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

only he is man, male and female.
who is like this God, the reflection
or image and likeness of God; sup
pose, when we have done this even
in the smallest degree, We always
ask of this very primary education,
What belongs to US, any one of US,
as the image and likeness of God!
| Could we not thus get correct an
swers? What. for instance, belongs
to the reflection of power, infinite
power? Do powerlessness, inability,
/ incapacity? What belongs to the re-
Election of Mind? Do lack of pur-
pose, lack of will, and ignorance of
what we need to know? What be-
longs to the reflection of divine
Spirit, infinite Truth, Love, Life?
Do sensualism. untruthfulness, fear,
distrust, aversion, hate. sickness,
death? Would not the truth about
what man is and what man has be
just the opposite of all such claims,
and did not Jesus say, I'VE shall
know the truth. and the truth shall
make you free?
Suppose that the likeness in a
looking glass of any of US here was
claimed to be unlike US, to lack
something We possess, or to possess
something foreign to US, would we
admit the claim? If We did, would
we be truthful or honest? Would
we not be claiming for it some
thing that it did not possess, claim
ing a distortion rather than a re-
Election, a fraud and an imposition
as our likeness? Can your image
and likeness in the glass have some
thing or take something that you
do not have or take? Can man,
then. the image and likeness of God,
be different from God? Can he be
unprepared for anything, unsafe, in
AdI iC lahS a
cold, sickness of any kind, and die?
Not unless God is and does these
things. How truthful, how honest
is one then who claims to be man,
meaning man or woman, the image
and likeness of God, and also claims
to be, to do, and to have everything
contrary to God? Is he then declar-
ing the truth which alone makes
free; is he obeying the commands,
Thou shalt not bear false witness"
and Judge not according to the ap-
pearance, but judge righteous judg-
ment"?
We all need assurance. All will
agree that if God is the Principle,
the basic quality of all, claims con-
trary to Him are not true. Yet
these claims, the education of gen.
erations upon generations, crowd
upon US. clamor for admission at
every turn, upon every hand. They
assure US at every impact, every
contact, that there is danger; dam
ger that We cannot, that nothing
can ward off; that cold, heat, dry,
wet, everything we breathe, drink,
eat, touch, smell. feel. everything
We undertake 10 do, is fraught with
danger, danger that we have not
sufficient intelligence or power to
cope with: that all these things
have power over US. not we the
power over them which God gave
US and constantly gives US. We
have plenty Of assurance, our whole
education is the assurance of strug-
gle, of strife, of ultimate defeat,
disaster, death. -.." .. .-.
How like "the gentle rain from
heaven" dropping upon the dry earth
beneath. come the opposite assur-
ance that now are we the sons Of
God" even though this doth not
yet appear; that as such we are
the reflections of God; that be-
cause of this we now have just
what God has, all that is good and
nothing else; that now is all this
available to US through being truth
full, honest, through not bearing
false witness, not claiming and not
taking what doessnot belong to US as
the sons and daughters of God, so
heirs of God with Christ; by not