Article May 31, 1941 Issue

"Have we not all one father?"

FLORENCE WALKER

The foundation of mortal discord is a false sense of man's origin." So writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 262 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." Throughout the ages men have endeavored to overcome discord, sin, sickness, sorrow, lack, war, death, and all the unhappy conditions which seem to harass human existence. Since these discords seem to have increased instead of diminished, is it not apparent that men have sought their destruction by wrong methods?

We know that in order to eradicate a weed, one must destroy its root. So it is with mortal discord, which results from "a false sense of man's origin." What, then, is the remedy? Simply this: the gaining of the true sense of man's origin! Christian Science, through the light it throws upon the Scriptures, is helping mankind to gain this knowledge of the true nature of man.

The Bible states, "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him." Here we find the definite record of man's true origin: "God created man in his own image." Christ Jesus declared that God is Spirit. He taught and proved that man in God's image and likeness is spiritual. Spiritual man has never been changed. Since man is spiritual, he knows nothing of the discords of mortal sense.

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