Article April 25, 1931 Issue

Reflection

ETHEL MAUDE BAIRD

We read in the first chapter of Genesis: "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness .... So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him .... And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." There are not two creations, the one material, the other spiritual, utterly unlike each other; so let us not be found believing in the material lie, the illusion about man in God's likeness.

The truth of man as God's reflection healed one student of Christian Science in the following simple manner. Something small and white was lying on the floor, and the student hurried to pick it up, only to find that this could not be done because it was a spot of sunlight. In the distance it seemed to be a piece of paper or cloth; but on trying to touch it, the student found that it was impalpable. With great joy came the thought: This is analogous to what Christian Science teaches about man. He is God's reflection and cannot be touched by anything material. His life is in God. Nothing can ever touch him to destroy him, any more than I can interfere with a spot of sunshine. Such a load of fear fell away that the student was instantaneously healed of a physical condition of an apparently serious nature.

In her poem "Christmas Morn" Mrs. Eddy writes of the Christ, the God-idea (Poems, p. 29):

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