CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 110, 11 May 1936, Page 2

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES

"Adam and Fallen Man” was the subject of the lesson-sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, May 10. 'Vhc golden text was Isaiah 2:22. "Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of.” Among the citations which comprised the lesson-sermon were the following from the Bible: "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service. And beye renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man. which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.” ' (Bom. 12:1, Eph. 5:23, 24). Also the following passages from the Christian Science textbook, ‘‘Science ■ and Health with Key to the Scrip- ’ tures” by Mary Baker Eddy: ‘‘ln ■ divine Science, man is the true image * of God. The divine nature was best ' expressed in Christ Jesus, who threw ' upon mortals the truer reflection of • God and lifted their lives higher than J their poor thought-models would allow I thoughts which presented man as ’ fallen, sick, sinning and dying. The ’ human capacities aro enlarged.and peri fected in proportion as humanity gains r the true conception of man and God. ’ Mortals have a very imperfect sense of 1 the -spiritual man and of the infinite ’ range of his thought,” (pp- 259, 2-58.) 3 .