The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-20

your view. The man whom God made is in His image and likeness; he is | spiritual, not material. Now a treat
 ment and healing in Christian Science
 consist in seeing and knowing the su premacy of Truth and therefore know
 ing the impotency of error. Healing in Christian Science brings with it an awakened sense of the dominion over l sin, sickness and death; and this do-
 minion is the legacy which every child l of God inherits from his heavenly 1 Father.
 1 With this brief statement of heal 1 ing in Christian Science we proceed to l the consideration of the wilderness. UNREST
 The human mind is never at peace. It is always in quest of satisfaction, seking rest and finding none. This is because mortal mind cannot under stand the saying of Jesus, fin the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world;'' "my peace I leave with you; my peace give unto you" The Apos- tie Paul, understanding this situation, states the need for peace most clearly when he writes: "The whole creation groaneth and travaileth together in pain waiting for the adoption, I to-wit, the redemption of our body.r The wayside flower perishing forIack of moisture. the helpless bird amid the wintry blasts, the beast of the for est seeking his meat from God. mortal
 man, shining and sick-these all are evidences that the whole creation is reaching out blindly for help. Like t'rankenstein, it aspires to satisfaction and finds no way to attain unto it Now the fundamental panacea for this
 unrest is to know God. In an early Christian century. the Roman aristo- crat, Augustine. after trying all ma- terlal pleasures, cried out thus to the God of peace: Thou hast made me for Thyself, O God. and my soul can never 1 lind rest until it rests in Thee"
 Tn the first chapter of Genesis, man is recognized as being at one with God,
 made in His image and likeness, dwell-
 ing in peace and harmony. In the sec
 ond chapter of Genesis. it is said: There
 went up mist from the earth" This
 mist marked the beginning of the groan- ing creation.
 In the early days of Moses and the Hebrew prophets, as preparation was going on for the establishment of the Jewish church, men communed with God as familiarly as man now converses with man. As time went on the mist of dis obedience and self-righteousness rose and the Jewish church became part of the groanng creation. In time began the dawning of a new era. In the days of Jesus and the apostles, while the Chris 1 tian church was being realized, the 1 presence of God was a reality to men, and peace and power were ever present
 and were manifested in destroying sick ness and sin. Again there went up q mist from the earth,-the mist of human domination and materiality, and then the Christian church joined it's groanings | with those of it's predecessor
 1 Again we say, the fundamental panacea 1 for unrest is to know God. And now after fifteen hundred years of theologi- | cal mist. darllening the human mind, 1 comes Christian Science to this age.
 teaching men how to know God, by dis
 polling and destroying the veil of evil l beliefs which obscure Him.
 GOD
 | Christian Science is the realm of defi- nite knowledge. Ecclesiastical theology | is the realm of indefinite belief Now.
 as we have indicated, both in the Jewish | and Christian churches, theology grad ually came to teach that God is mys- l terious Person, remaining unrevealed to l a large extent, and incapable of being | known clearly by men until after death. l The Bible passage which says: Clouds i indeed and darkness are round about 1 Him. was taken to mean that God wraps Himself in an impenetrable cloak. | All these texts in the Bible which seem
 to indicate that God cannot be clearly
 known and that He is shrouded in clouds
 and darkness, deserve special attention. | for in a sense they all are true. by
 which tt is meant that God is indeed be- ! hind veil; but that curtain of cloud and darkness is not made by God, rather
 is it the result of mortal-mind ig- Inorance and sinful thought In other