The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1924-05-26
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SPEAKER STRESSES
MANS STANDING
Judge Greene, Louisville, De-
IiVerS Two Lectures on
The Religion of JOY

Two lectures on Christian Science
were delivered Saturday by Judge
Samuel W. Greene, c. S. of Louis
vile. Ky, at the Second Church of
Christ, Scientist, at Delaware and
Twelfth SITS. The subject was Chris
tan Science; the Religion of JOY"
Judge Green said. in part: "One
of the most satisfying results of
ones spiritual understanding of God
as taught in Christian Science is the
equally important knowledge Of
what man is.
"NIan Is Spiritual
In our generally accepted hui
man concept of man, he has been
regarded as material, therefore as
temporal, and subject to sickness. sin
and death. In the spiritual inter
probation Of the Bible one learns
that man is spiritual and partakes
of the spiritual qualities of God, who
is Spirit This teaching, any Bible
student will recognize as being
based on the first chapter of Genesis
where it is said: And God said,
Let us make man in our image and
likeness; and let them have domin-
ion over the fish of the sea, and
the fowl of the air, and over
the cattle, and over all the earth,
and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth. SO God
created man in his own image, in
the image Of God created he him;
male and female created he them
Genesis 1876, 27.
THE hostile critic Of Christian
Science may vehemently protest that
enc can not so construe the quoted
passage of Genesis, while there re
mains the so-caued material creation
Of man in the second chapter OF
Genesis. a complete answer to that
one viii find in the text book, in
the Chapter called Genesis-which
is a part OF the Key to the Scrip
lures For the purposes of this
lecture il can be briefly said that
on the undisputed authority of
Jesus. God in Spirit. To be logical
and sensible in determining what
man would resemble if made in Gods
image it would seem necessary to
say he must be like Spirit or
spiritual and not material This
teaching is fortified by PauIs APP
parent effort in his writings to bring
to mans understanding his spiritual
nature. as is instanced in the fol
lowing quotations. FOR the things
which are seen are temporal. but
the things which are not seen are
eternal 2 Cor. 4:18. There is
therefore now no condemnation to
them which are in Christ Jesus who
walk not after the flesh but after
the Spirit. For the law Of the Spirit
Of life in Christ Jesus hath made
me free from the law of sin and
death Rom. 81. y.
Creation Spiritual idea
SO. Christian Science teaches that
creation is not the moulding Of
forms out Of matter. but is the I'M
folding Of spiritual ideas. To con-
slider man as an idea of Mind may
seem intangible to the material
thinker as compared with flesh and
bones. Immediately one turns, how
ever, to the realm Of ideas. and con-
siders their reality and permanence,
such as eight times five are forty
or the square on the hypotenuse of
right triangle equals the sum of
the squares on the other two sides,
he is better able to appreciate and
understand the forever truth that
man is a spiritual idea. The text
book says. A spiritual idea has not
single element Of error, and this
truth removes properly whatever is
offensive Science and Health
46312. 13). This spiritual truth I'M