The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-05-13

stain is too deep. Depart from me,
depart from mel" And haven't We /
heard just that, just that, preached IN
the name of compassionate Chris /
tianity? But what do we find in the |
Scriptures? But when he was yet |
great way OF, his father saw him, and
had compassion, and ran, and fell on
his neck. and kissed him. And !.
the father said to his servants, Bring
forth the best robe, and put 1t on
him; and put ring on his hand. and
shoes on his feet: s. for this my son
was dead. and is alive again; he was
lost, and is found" This is the God OF
Christ Jesus, the God of infinite Love
and compassion and justice, God
who is not the author of suffering or
sickness or sin; and it is this God
which Christian Science is revealing
to the world after, 10, these many
weary heartsick years!
Have you ever heard the story that
is told of the man who was such
never failing optimist that he met ev-
cry calamity recital with the comfort
ing words. We'll, well, it might have
been worse?" This custom of his
aroused the ire of one of his friends,
an avowed pessimist. who resolved to
put an end to it. Meeting him soon
after, said the pessimist to his friend,
Il dreamed about you last night-a
most horrible dream-and when you
have heard it, / know you cannot say
that it might have been worse" And
then he told of his supposed dream,
| graphically picturing his friend per-
] ishing in the torments of everlasting
fire, and making the story as horrible
as possible. When he finished, the
other thought for moment, and then
said, well, that might have been
worse" How might it have been
worse?" echoed his astonished friend.
ut might have been true" said the
other.
And so we think about the theory OF
everlasting punishment. How terrible
unthinkable, it would be if it were
true. Christian Science, however, re
vealing an all-powerful creator who is
ever-present Love, shows that such
a concept is too bad to be true.
"There Went Up Mist From Earth"
Now, had been asked before study
ing Christian Science as to what was
: the first mention of man in the Bible
1 should promptly have referred the
inquirer to Adam, in the garden O.
Eden. But Christian Science show!
that the Adam, or material man of thu
second chapter of Genesis. does no
appear until the first mention of dis
! cord, in the second chapter of Genesis
We have read that Gods creation il
9 good, is finished, divine law and per
! lection reign, and the creator res
: from His work. Then occurs this sig
4 nificant statement in the second chap
ter: But there went up a mist of tn
0 ground And then came a man mad
q from dust, not in the likeness of Spiri
!; and apparently not given dominic
q over all the earth. In fact, the cart
d seems to have dominion over him, 70
e he promptly yields to the enslavemen
o of materially, being loyalty assiste
by woman fashioned from one of hi
s ribs. Surely this man made from dus
s and this woman from a rib, depictin
l as they do the weakness, frailty, di
u obedience, and lawlessneSs of mater
e atty, cannot present the deathles
e perfect, spiritual handiwork of tn
5, Most High. Far indeed is materi;
n man from the image and likeness {
S the One altogether lovely"
What Was the Mist?
e In fact, as indicated before, TIL
n material sense of man appeared on
y with the coming of mist What We
d this mist? In the textbook we rea
a. (Science and Health, p. 523): 9Th
p creations of matter arise from mi
'e or false claim, or from mystificatio
lie and not from the armament, or unGe
n standing, which God erects betwee
S, the true and false" Mystificatio
n then, may be said to be the opposi
le of understanding, and the opposite
Of understanding can mean only this
to ignorance. Ignorance of God, Spiri
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