Article April 26, 1924 Issue

In the columns of your paper of recent date, there is a...

Fred B. Kerrick, Committee on Publication for the State of California,—Dos Palos

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In the columns of your paper of recent date, there is a comment concerning the first and second chapters of Genesis. Since the name of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, is mentioned in the communication, I should like space for an answer.

Mrs. Eddy has given a clear explanation of the first and second chapters of Genesis in the chapter entitled "Genesis" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." She does not acknowledge in any of her writings that the belief of a man supposed to have been made of the dust of the ground is the man God created. There is a distinct line drawn between the spiritual man of God's creating and the so-called material man said to be formed of the dust of the ground by the Lord God.

Paul had caught a clear glimpse of the perfect man when he was able to write, in the eighth chapter of his epistle to the Romans, "They that are in the flesh cannot please God." If this "man of the dust" had been a creation of God, would he not have pleased God? Paul then goes on to say: "But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. ... For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die." The Bible is rich with affirmations of the fact that the man of God's creating is a perfect, harmonious, spiritual idea.

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