Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1939-12-01

fact, the Scriptures state in plain
terms that man is created in the image
and likeness of God, and it must be
obvious to all that an image or like
ness cannot possibly be unlike the
original. So, if God is not cognizable
through the medium of the physical
senses, the conclusion that man in the
image and likeness of God could not
be cognizable through the senses OF
seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling, and
hearing cannot logically be gainsaid
or denied.
Some may be willing to admit the
spiritual and incorporeal nature Of
God, but spiritual vision has not yet
furnished them with the concept Of
man in Gods image and likeness as
purely spiritual and without physical
and material accomplishments. And
while some may have glimpsed some
what the spiritual nature of the
creator, yet there are many who cling
to the material, localized, outlined, and
circumscribed sense of Him, which
would naturally demand material be-
ing or personality as His image and
likeness.
Obviously, God did not create man
to become the object Of materially
chaotic universe, where one part of His
creation becomes the helpless victim
of others of His creatures; where the
child of God supinely succumbs to the
ravages of a mindless disease germ
claiming divine authority to kill;
where one Of His children wants, while
another vice and crime abound, at the
expense of the pure and innocent;
where hate seems often the master
of love; where purity and honesty are
tempted Of evil, and where man is a
helpless, rudderless, and aimless crea-
ture, separate and apart from Gods
care, guidance, and directing.
God
And here is where Chistian Science
steps into the breach, and through it's
christianity scientific explanation of
God and man gives mortals the true
concept of themselves in Gods image
and likeness, and the true vision of
God as omnipotent and ever-present
good, freeing men from the bondage
of those influences which have ever
beset the path of mankind, and offer
ing full salvation from sin, sickness,
poverty, and inharmony.
To divest God of human vestures
and material accomplishments, and
to proclaim Him as universal, "incor-
poreal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind,
Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth,
Love" (Science and Health, p. 1867
was not the outcome of human reason.
It was the natural and necessary re-
suit of Mrs. Eddy's close and constant
communion with God. Such commu-
MON is possible to us here in the ex-
act degree that we dematerialize our
concept of God and understand Him as
"incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite
Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life,
Truth, Love-"
In the destruction of the inhar-
monies-the poverty, the sickness, the
strife, and the unhappiness of human
living can equal the individ-
uals mental conviction of the infni-
tude of God. The clear, individual con-
cSpC u GOU DIS lHIlulCe eHScCS Cne eIlIn.
ination of all the inharmony Of mate
rial existence. God in His true spirit
ual and infinite significance is the dia-
metrical opposite Of that which claims
to exist as the prosecutor of mankind;
and the unadulterated understanding
Of the infinitude of God will, of itself,
prove a law of humiliation to all those
conditions which render material ex-
istence uncertain, speculative, tragic,
and homeless.