Evening star., 1921-05-22
RELIGIOUS NOTICE.
"BehoM come quickly; and reu1d oiM to giue
every according his ,uork shall be- -CHR1Sr JESUS

with men, and they are His people.
thus man was no longer regarded
as miserable sinner, but as the
blessed child of God. Why? Be-
cause St Johns corporeal sense of
the heavens and earth had van
ished, and in place of this false
sense was the spiritual sense. the
subjective state by which he could
see the new heaven and new earth.
which involve the spiritual idea
and consciousness of reality. This
is Scriptural authority for con-
cluding that such a recognition of
being is, and has been, possible to
man in this present state of ex-
istencc,-that we can become con-
scious, here and now. Of cessa-
tion OF death, sorrow and pain.
This is indeed a foretaste of alb
solute Christian Science
(Science and Health, p. 53)
Only through spiritual sense can the
things of Spirit. God, be seen. At this,
the second appearing of the Son of God,
the ideal man, Christ, his followers are
revealing the tabernacle of God on earth
and the end of SORROW" and crying"
pain and death" for the former
carnal mind, which produced this time
world-will have passed away" Reve-
Iatfon xxi, ~ Spiritual understand
ing-man in the image and likeness of
God, rejecting his creator, infinite Life
and Love, will be found the eternal
verify of being.
At Christ's first appearing, they who
were looking through material sense
saw this ideal man as human and
masculine. They asked, '1s not this
Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father
and mother we. know? how is it then
that he saith, come down from
heaven?" John, vi, AZ
Mrs. Eddy says, Christ. or the
spiritual idea, appeared to human con-
sciousness as the man Jesus" Retro
spection and Introspection. p 95.) At
his first appearing, he represented the
fatherhood of God. When about to leave
his disciples, he comforted them with
this assurance, Il go and :.
will come again. will not
leave you comfortless: will come to
you. John, XIV 5, 18)
Paul believed Christ Jesus promise
and looked for the temperance of the
Christ-man, who had given to the world
in his victory over the dream of DEATH.
proof OF his divine nature a the Son ofi
God, and he left this assurance to all
who discern the divinity of Christ Jesuss
Unto them that look for him
shall he appear the second time
without sin [feshl unto salvation
(Hebrews, TX, 2S)
At Christ's second coming, the Herods,
of the twentieth cetnury are continuing
their efforts to destroy this ideal man
of Gods creating. Divine Science re-
veals the eternal fact, that Christ III
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God, to human sense seen as woman
As Elias presented the idea of
the fatherhood of God, which
Jesus afterward manifested, so the
Revelator completed this figure
with woman, typifying the spirit
ual idea of Gods motherhood.
(Science and Health, o. 562)
Only those who through spiritual
sense apprehend this man of Gods Great
ing. and believe his promise, are looking
his mission,-his final triumph over the
claim of so-ca1led material generation,
with its beginning in suppositional life
and intelligence, and its end in DEATH
Christ is again meeting Judas, or the
carnal man, who sold him, at his first
demonstration, and is again, at his
second coming, receiving the thirty
pieces of silver and the smiles of the
hypocritical Pharisees.
For ages, John the Revelator has tes-
tilted of the warfare between the
spiritual real man and the Adamic race,
with its claim to fife, truth, intellieence.
and overcoming of material sense, John
attained to spiritual understanding. and
heard the voice of the ever-present
Christ:
And ffe saith unto me, Seal not
the sayings of the prophesy of this
book; for the time is at hand
And, behold, l come quickly;
and my reward is with me, to
give every man according as his
work shall be.
l am Alpha and Omega, the be-
ginning and the end, the first and
the last
/ am the root and offspring of
David, and the bright and morning
Surely come quickly
Revelation xxi, 10, Il, Is, 16, .2o)
John replied, Even so, come, Lord
Jesus" Revelation xii, 2O) Today,
all who are looking through the lens of
spiritual sense, know this prophecy is
near fulfilment. True Christian Scien-
lists are heralding the coming of the
King of kings, and Lord of lords;"
and the government :
shall be upon his shoulders; and
his name shall be called Wonder
full, Counsellor. The mighty God,
The everlasting Father, The
Prince of Peace Qsaiah, il, g.
Throughout the centuries, unheededs
by the Adam-Eve race, these words of
God have reverberated through his
mouthpiece, the prophet Moses:
call heaven and earth to record
this day against you, that have
set before you life and death,
blessing and eursing; therefore
choose life, that thou and thy
seed may live. deuteronomy,
XXX, 49,
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