The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-04-13


thine iniquities: who healeth all thy
diseases; who redeemeth thy life
from destruction; who crowneth thee
with lovingkindness and tender mer-
cies." Not a God OF battles, not a
God OF disasters, floods. storms. and
earthquakes, but that God who
speaks today. as OF yore. through
the still small voice" OF Mind. The
God who loves all mankind and who,
relied upon, will lead all mankind in
the ways OF Love, and away from
the ways OF hatred, malice. revenge,
envy, jealousy, and resentment. The
God who is always available. always
wise, always just, always on the side
OF that which Is right and good.
What courage this should inspire
that error cannot be added Ia God S
universe, detracting from its true
nature; that sickness cannot force
itself upon us TO take away health
that poverty cannot intrude 10 de-
prive us OF prosperity; that sin cam
not beset us TO rob us OF purity.
that sorrows pail cannot shroud our
reave us Of our peace!
or this one and only creator and
His one and only creation the Bible
has this 10 say: And God said, Let
us make man In our image. after
our likeness and let them have do
minion over the Ash OF the sea. and
over the fowl OF the air. and over
al an MT,
and over every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the earth"
Dominion? That means control,
doesn't It? But how runs the mod
ern idea OF man and Of his status
in the scheme OF things? Mortal
man, not Gods man, believes that
evil has dominion or control over
him. And why? Mainly because OF
false belief about man, not based
upon the spiritual account OF crea-
ton. as related In the first chapter
OF Genesis, and as exemplifled in
the healings OF Jesus, but upon the
materially counterfeit account of
creation given in the second and
following chapters, In which man is
supposed to have been made of the
dust OF the ground and to have be-
come involved In all the errors Of
material sense.
True and False Creation
Christian Science has brought
about restoration OF the right sense
about man by calling attention to
these widely differing descriptions
OF creation, and showing that they
do not complement each other. but
are evidently set down side by side
in order TO show the truth, OF the
first and the consequent falsity Of
the second.
Mrs. Eddy devotes fifty-seven
pages OF her textbook TO an eXegesis
or spiritual Interpretation of these
contrasting accounts OF creation. be-
cause she realized the Importance
OF starting from the right viewpoint
In order 10 arrive at the correct
conclusion In regard TO man.
In their efforts TO gain a right
sense OF what Is meant by man as
the image and likeness OF God
Christian Scientists utilize Mrs
Eddy's term reflection.
On page SIS OF the textbook, Sci
ence and Health, Mrs Eddy writes:
Your mirrored reflection Is your
own image or likeness. II you lift
weight, your reflection does this
also. II you speak, the lips OF this
likeness move in accord with yours
Now compare man before the mirror
TO his divine Principle. God. Call
the mirror divine Science, and call
man the reflection. Then note how
true, according to Christian Science
Is the reflection to its original. AS
the reflection OF yourself appears In
the mirror. so you. being spiritual
are the reflection OF God The SUBJ
stance, Life. intelligence. Truth. and
Love, which constitute Deity, are
reflected by His creation and when
We subordinate the false testimony
OF the corporal senses to the facts
OF Science. we shall see this true
likeness and reflection everywhere. 4"
Try this some time, just as an ex-
pertinent 1t will help TO fix this idea
firmly in consciousness. See If 1t is
possible for your reflection to look
differently from you, or TO act diff
ferently.
The Pr0digal Son
Mortal man believes it TO be posi-
bic to separate himself from God,
and TO take up an independent
course OF action; to think, and
speak, and act for himself, without
recourse to the divine Mind for in
spiration or direction. He believes
he can go his own way of material
ity and ignominy If he so pleases /!
But. can he?
In the fifteenth chapter OF Luke,
Jesus tells about the prodigal son.
In the light OF what has Just been
said, let us look at this story, re-
Wondering that it is parable. and
not the story OF real person al
though incidents similar in every
way have been enacted over and
over again.
Jesus drew word picture OF a
well-to-do family, the younger son
OF which, longing TO get away from
restrictive discipline in the parental
home and to follow his own devices,
persuaded bis father TO let him have
his inheritance, and took It with
him into far country where he
wasted this accumulation upon false
friends and in loose living. And then
came famine in that land-a de-
preston, 10 use a more modern term.
lie found himself in want and
had TO seek employment. THAT has
a familiar sound, hasn't IT'D He
could find work only of the lowest
order, according to the thought OF
that time, tending swine. His false
friends had disappeared. no man