Article October 28, 1939 Issue

"Unto thee am I now sent"

KATE E. ANDREAE

While Daniel was by the side of the great river Hiddekel, he beheld a vision. In describing the nature of this experience he says, "I Daniel alone saw the vision: ... and there remained no strength in me: for my comeliness was turned in me into corruption."

We, today, are likewise by the great river Hiddekel, which Mary Baker Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 588), defines as "divine Science understood and acknowledged." We too have discerned, in some measure at least, the fact that life and intelligence are spiritual not material. Like Daniel, we have glimpsed the spiritual idea, God's image, and in the first realization that spiritual being alone has reality, we have been lifted up above the earth in exaltation of spirit. We may have turned after this experience, not only once, but many times, with dismay to the counterfeit, the man of flesh, and seen the "comeliness" of this false sense turn to corruption. Can we, we wonder, ever accomplish the tremendous work of putting on the new man, the ideal of God, which we have recognized? Can we turn away, once and for all, from the flesh with its false ideals and indulgences, and manifest perfection here and now?

When we seem lost in the contemplation of so-called mortal selfhood, and the suggestion of unworthiness presents itself; when we seem far from manifesting the perfection of spiritual being, as revealed in Christian Science, we should remember that the man of flesh is not the man of God's creating, and that this false concept can never be transported into the heavenly realm, for "flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God." As we are true to the spiritual idea, however; as we contemplate the real man; as we, through the persistent realization of ever-present spiritual verities, overcome the beliefs of the flesh, its temptations and ills, its enmities and hates, we awaken proportionately to the fact that man, God's image and likeness, has never left his Father's kingdom, and that the material counterfeit never belonged there.

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