Article March 6, 1954 Issue

MAN IS IMPORTANT

MARIAN PITCHER CLARK

Sometimes an individual is held back from contributing his best to the world, from taking his proper place in it, by a persistent sense of unimportance and inferiority. This false attitude may have dogged his footsteps from childhood. It is not necessary to explore all the details of his past to find out what has lowered his self-respect, for the cause is always basically the same; and there is but one remedy. The cause is a false standpoint, a mistaken estimate of being, and the remedy is to learn the true standpoint and to act from this correct basis.

If an individual seems to be expressing either egotism or a deflated, inadequate sense of being, he is thinking of himself in a personal, finite way instead of recognizing the real man's divine nature as the child of God. He is believing himself to be an entity separated from God. Christian Science teaches that God is Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit, Life, Truth, and Love, and that man is the reflection of God. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures"(pp. 336,337): "God and man are not the same, but in the order of divine Science, God and man coexist and are eternal. God is the parent Mind, and man is God's spiritual offspring. God is individual and personal in a scientific sense, but not in any anthropomorphic sense."

God is not a corporeal person, nor is man, who is God's image. The Apostle Paul referred to the Son of God as "the brightness of his [God's] glory, and the express image of his person"(Hebr.1:3). And in I John we read (3:2) "Beloved, now are we the sons of God." In his true spiritual nature, man is forever expressing God. He is Life's manifestation of life, the witness of Principle, Love, the effect of divine Mind's knowing. He is the individual consciousness of all that God is. God, divine Mind, and His idea, man, can never be separated.

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