Article September 8, 1973 Issue

Like Father, like Son

ELIZABETH GLASS BARLOW

Perfect God, perfect man—what a standpoint from which to gauge the nature of one's true being! To see that man as the expression of God gives evidence that God is present and active provides fresh animus to one's sense of identity and purpose. Thought reaches out to wider hopes and horizons, pushing off the restrictions imposed by matter-based concepts.

This fact of the perfection of God and man, the Christian axiom concluded from the account of creation in the first chapter of Genesis, is basic to demonstrating the freedom offered by Christian Science.

Applied to the field of heredity and childhood experience, it challenges the material theories whereby the traits, faults, and fears of a human parent may be unjustly pinned onto or looked for in the child. Such injustices saddled upon one in childhood, and perhaps carried over into adulthood, can be removed when a knowledge of God introduces one to His higher law, the law of Love.

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