The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-17

4hCACAVAS AAoAAt AAuAC AAA AAAo AANoS and likeness, could not behold aught that God does not know. Spiritual man could never find his true self- hood in materiality. The allness of God destroys the seeming actuality of evil and 1t is only as one gains a comprehension of Gods allness that the unrealty of evil becomes ap- parent. The suggestion that spirit ual man can dwell in a material universe is only part of the decep- tive belief and Is destroyed by the true concept of man and the uni- verse. This true concept, however, Is not gained by keeping the eyes on the level of materiality. There must be lifting up - a looking up and away from sense testimony, which defrauds, cheats, and lies. We must climb to the heights where the view is unobstructed. Those who have climbed to the top of the mount of revelation, even to behold the new heaven and the new earth, have told us of the vision, that we, too, may have courage and hope. and enlarged perception to rise 
 above the mist.
 Surely you will be glad to know that God never made a sick or sin- full man. He who believes there can be any man besides the one made in Gods image and likeness should be willing to let go of 1t when he rec members that this false belief has brought nothing but discord and dismay.
 If were to tell you that by divid- ing a sum you would get an added amount instead of less, you would not believe me because your under standing of the law of mathematics denies 1t. If you ever did believe 1t, 1t brought wrong results, and when you found you were mistaken, you gave up the erroneous conception gladly because when you applied the truth of that mathematical rule you got the right answers to your problems. A mistake is brought about through wrong process of reasoning, and the discordant re- suits disappear when the mistake Is corrected. It is thus when we ex- change a false concept of God for the real one, and when we put off the "old man" and put on the new man" we have no regrets.
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 This new man." Christian Sci- ence teaches, is the real man, and Mrs. Eddy describes him in Science and Health (p. 475) as "the com- pound idea of God, including all right ideas; the generic term for all that reflects Gods image and like- ness" So man, made in Gods image, reflects, expresses God, and could not express anything unlike Him. But this Is not the man the five physical senses tell us about. They present man whose con- sciousness is more or less filled with thoughts of Gods unlikeness.
 The world has long battled over the question, What is man? The Scriptures plainly tell us that man was made in Gods image and like ness. Then as God is Life, Truth, and Love, the real man is the reflec. ton of Life, Truth, and Love. He is not mortal; he is immortal. He is not material; he is spiritual.
 The student of Christian Science demonstrates the truths of its teach- ings only in proportion to his un- derstanding and correct application of its rules. But 1t Is true that since Christian Science was discov- cred, and the art of divine healing again given to the world, through the application of its teachings thousands have demonstrated the healing of all manner of disease, and the successful overcoming of countless inharmonious conditions, thus proving its efficacy, and that nothing of good is impossible of ac- compltshment to those who seek God with all their hearts. And one does not need to be satisfied with half blessing. Jesus declared, Your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him" Only formerly we may have in- verted the interpretation of this, trying to make God manlike in a consciousness of human needs. Might 1t not more logically mean that our need is for the things our Father knoweth, such as wisdom, intelligence, understanding, love? If we have these things, no good could be lacking.
 The Kingdom of Heaven God, the universe. and man COG exist and are coeternal. They are inseparable. Therefore man could never fall from his high estate; he could never be out of the Kingdom of heaven. nor from under Gods loving care and protection, or fall into a universe of uncertainty and imperfection. He always has been and always will be at one with God.
 In the Glossary of Science and Health we find the definition of the Kingdom of heaven as follows CD. 5o0): "The reign of harmony in di- vine Science; the realm of unerring, eternal, and omnipotent Mind; the atmosphere of Spirit, where Soul is supreme"
 Jesus taught many spiritual truths, especially concerning the kingdom of heaven, by parables. Through these simple stories of things familiar to the people they were often better able to compre- bend his meaning. One of his best known parables is woven around a young man who believed that he could be separated from his father and his rightful heritage. son who gathered together his portion of the inheritance and travelled far away. and indulged in an orgy of careless waste, even until he suffered in the very depths of degradation and want. When he realized his mistake, however, he did not let false sense of pride further delude him into re- fusing to acknowledge 1t. On the contrary, he determined to return to his fathers estate in humility and repentance. willing to serve and prove himself worthy. When the