Article September 4, 1926 Issue

Rejecting the Counterfeit

NATHAN H. WEIL

A coin presented for change at a railway booth was quickly returned by the agent, who exclaimed, "That is lead or aluminum." It was evident that it was because of his acquaintance with the coin of the realm that he could detect the spurious nature of the counterfeit so quickly and reject it. The writer then examined the coin, which proved to be lead, and subsequently destroyed it.

If in the human realm, whether in art, in factory, shop, office, or in field, the counterfeit is subject to detection and destruction, how necessary it is for us to become acquainted with the spiritual, the eternal, the real, in order to recognize the material falsity, the temporal, the unreal! This has been made possible through the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, as revealed in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and her other writings.

For a long time mankind had largely lost sight of the true God. Men worshiped they knew not what. God was supposed by many to reside in a far-away place called heaven, being invested with a form like that of a mortal; and all this, in spite of the saying of our Way-shower, Jesus of Nazareth, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." But when our beloved Leader, through her persistent study of the Scriptures, gained a larger understanding of God and presented her revelation to the world, God again became known to men as Spirit. Through her teachings it may be clearly seen that the spiritual creation, as recorded in the first chapter of Genesis, is the real creation, in which man is found to be the image and likeness of God, spiritual, perfect, and complete. It is plainly evident, therefore, that the record in the second chapter of Genesis sets forth a counterfeit or unreal concept of creation. This knowledge helps to lift one above the mists of materiality and enables him to work out his problem in a correct manner.

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