GOD AND MAN

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 293, 7 September 1931, Page 2

GOD AND MAN

Christian Science Churches “May” was the subject of the lessonsermon in First and Second Churches of Christ,, Scientist, Wellington, yesterday. The golden text was from Ecclesiastes 7:29, “Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright.” Among the citations which comprised the lesson-sermon was the following from the Bible: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that crcepeth upon the earth. So God created man in His own image, in the imago of God created He him; male and female created He them.” (Gen 1:26, 27.) The lesson-sermon also included the following passage from the Christian Science textbook: “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," by Mary Baker Eddy: “The Scriptures inform us that man is made in the image and likeness of God. . . Man is idea, the image of Love; he is not' physique. He is the compound idea of God, including all right ideas; the generic term for all that reflects God’s image and likeness; the conscious identity of being as found in Science, in which man is the reflection of God or Mind, and therefore is eternal; that which has no separate mind from God; that which has not a single quality undcrived from Deity; that which possesses no life, intelligence, nor creative power of his own, but reflects spiritually all that belongs to his Maker.” (Page ' J