Evening star., 1921-05-22

Genuine Christian Scientists are ris-
ing, in this hour, to demonstration of
their spiritual individuality, their reflec-
tion of omnipotent Life and Love- The
radium of Love is dissolving and dis
persing the seeming mental darkness,
which hides from mankind its birthright,
dominion" over all things. Mrs. Eddy
says:
Creation is ever appearing, and
must ever continue to appear from
the nature of its inexhaustible
(Scieace and Health, p. 5o7)
Christ's offspring, they who have
grasped the Science of spiritual exist
ence, are attaining unto the perfect
man, unto the measure of the stature of
the fulness of Christ" Truth. (Ephe-
SLAMS iv, 15). Divine illumination has
enabled them to apprehend The spiritual
fact of their relation to the source
and supply of being-eternal Life and
Love. At times, through the Aesh-veil,
they family glimpse the face of their
father-Mother God, in their brother and
sister. whose real Image" and ''like-
ness" when seen through .he lens of
perfect love, will be revealed.
Obedience to the law Of God was de-
prophets, up to the time when the wise
men were led to behold the Bethlehem
babe, the Christ idea, and Mary, his
mother, was obliged to hide her child
from Hesod, who sought to destroy him.
Christ's mission was to deprive Herod.
the csrnal so-ealjed man, Of his crown,
Or power to create that which sins, suf-
fers, and dies,-the Adam-Eve genera
ton. The IDEAL man, Christ, the off
spring Of Spirit, triumphed over the
Adam-Eve generators and established
forever his unity with the Principle of
eternal being, his Father, God, thus ver-
lying his statements, Il and my Father
are one" My father is greater than
l." John, 30; xvi, ~. He declared:
Heaven and earth shall pass away; but
my words shall not pass away" mark
xiii, 81. Nor has the voice, the spiritu-
al mental message, been siieneed. Mary
Baker Eddy, who looked and longed for
God to manifest His presence and fulfil
His promise to His children-this seeker
for the fulilment of the law. of God,
caught the chord of Christ, Truth, and
became the scribe of Spirit, emitting the
light of spiritual life into the "chaos and
old night" of materialism. Thousands
upon thousands today are realizing the
import of her words:
The time for thinkers has come.
Truth, independent of doctrines and
tirne-honored systems, knocks at the
portal of humanity. Contentment
with the past and the cold conven-
tionality of materialism are crum-
bling away. Ignorance of God is no
longer the stepping stone to faith.
The only guarantee of obedience is
rikht apprehension of Him whom to
know aright is Life eternal Though
empires fall, "the Lord shall reign
forever
(Seience and Health, p. vi).
The hour for decision has arrived.
Which chapter Of Genesis, the first, or
the second, will humanity accept as the
true creation of an eternal Principle,
God7 Both cannot be true, for they are
antagohistic, the one to the other. In
the first chapter God made man in His
Gods own image" and likeness" and
gave him dominion" over all things. He
made, or expressed, His fatherhood and
motherhood, the life and love, of His
begetting and conceiving selfhood, in all
that He created; male and female Gre
ated He them to multiply and replen-
ish the earth," under the operation of
His creative law of eternal Life and
Love. Paul discerned this spiritual
wholeness of Gods man and declared,
There is neither male nor female; for
ye are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gala-
tians iiix 28). Each individual idea OF
God reflects both the life and love Of
omnipotent Spirit. This compound ideal
man reflects compound Principle, or
cause, eternal Life and Love, our Father
Mother God.
The first chapter of Genesis concludes
with Gods approval of His creatj On, or
His infinite manifestation. He finished
very God. God and His Christ, with the
infinite ideas, or children, which eonsti-
tute the body of God, are appearing, as
the Head of the body, Christ, is ap-
pretended and his imminence discerned.
Christ is faithful. He will verify his
word. He left this rich legacy to his
followers:
Heaven and earth shalt pass
away; but my words shall not pass
away. Mark xiii, 81.
have yet many things to say
unto you, but ye canno: bear them
now. (John xvi, l2).
go will come again.
(John XIV, s..
At this, his second and final appearing,
he is turning the Light of revelation on
the first chapter Of Genesis, and this
light exposes, as lie, the legendary
story of an imaginary creator and crea-
tion, opposed to Truth. This mytholog-
ical Adam is said to have derived his life
from the Lord God" and to have origi-
mated from the ground, later becoming
the Lord God" is recorded as the crea-
tor of Adam Eve. God, who had creat-
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