Article April 1, 1944 Issue

Man Is Godlike

ALTON N. SWETT

A Little boy was ill during the night. His parents made him comfortable and talked to him of God. Soon he went back to sleep. When he awakened in the morning his mother offered to assist him in getting up, but he quickly said, "Mummie, don't make pictures on me." He was completely healed.

This little boy had learned at home and in the Christian Science Sunday School that whatever is not good is not of God, but is only a picture of mortal mind. He had also learned that man, in the image and likeness of God, knows nothing of the pictures of disease, pain, fear, or inharmony. He accepted his healing when his parents declared the truth to him, and he did not expect or experience any after-affect of weakness or apathy. His alertness and expectancy of good dispelled the dream.

The Master, Christ Jesus, declared, "The prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me." We know that "the prince of this world," mortal mind, is a pretender, without power, authority, or kingdom. Jesus demonstrated that man comes forth from God, is ever the recipient of the Father's loving-kindness, and is never deceived by the mortal misconception of existence. He proved his immunity to the suggestions of physicality while in the wilderness. There the devil attempted to induce him to misuse his power and to accept worldly wealth and prestige, but the Way-shower finally and definitely put these temptations behind him with the affirmation, "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve." .

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