Article May 23, 1903 Issue

As a Man Thinketh

HANSON W. WHEELER.

"For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." To think that our brother is a sinner is to think evil, and we should "depart from evil, and do good." It is self-deception to assert that man is perfect, the image and likeness of God, and admit that some particular individual is not that man. Scholastic theology inculcates the belief that man is fallen, and this belief has become so thoroughly imbedded in human consciousness that man is not recognized, but only a false concept of man. When we awaken to the realization that what has appeared to us as unlike God's image and likeness, is none other than our own concept, we are convicted of sin. Retribution and repentance follow, and a consequent desire to make restitution.

The next step is to learn that this false sense does not belong to ourselves any more than it did to our brother, and then begins the process of reformation and regeneration, to be consummated in glorification which constitutes the working out of our salvation.

"The Truth of being is perennial, and the error is seen only when we look from wrong points of observation" (Science and Health, p. 265). "Jesus beheld in Science the perfect man, who appeared to him, where sinning mortal man appears in sense. In this perfect man the Saviour saw God's own likeness, and this correct view of man healed the sick" (Science and Health, p. 476).

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