Article August 20, 1932 Issue

Exodus

WILLIAM EDWIN MC KEE

In Genesis we read that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 151), "The divine Mind that made man maintains His own image and likeness." Thus in Christian Science we are learning to know God as "the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-acting, all-wise, all-loving, and eternal" (ibid., p. 587), and that man, whom God created, must reflect all the qualities of Spirit or Mind.

As Christian Scientists we should be careful to see and think of ourselves and others as in reality we are—ideas, the reflection of God, the one divine intelligence—and not as material. Thus we can identify ourselves with the source of true being, divine Mind, Life, or Spirit; and in proportion as we do this we can understand what Jesus meant and understood when he said: "I and my Father are one;" "My Father is greater than I;" "He doeth the works;" "I can of mine own self do nothing." In thus beholding the perfect man, we gain a glimpse of incorporeal being and of immortality. This spiritual sense is able to free us from the beliefs of substance-matter or sensation in matter, so that we may behold man as God created and maintains him—never sick, never deformed, never injured, never in want. In proportion as men understand this they are supplied with all needful things, are given opportunity for service and the wisdom and strength to perform the tasks at hand.

In this connection it is interesting to consider the experiences of Jesus and his disciples up to and at the time of his transfiguration. According to the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus had healed the multitudes of all manner of disease, healed the lame, the blind, the dumb, and the maimed; cast out devils, stilled the sea, restored the centurion's servant by absent treatment, proving the omnipresence of divine Mind; raised the daughter of Jairus from the dead; twice fed the multitudes by means of a few loaves and fishes; walked on the sea and assisted Peter to do so, and was revealed to Peter as the demonstrator of the Christ.

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