THE Bible presents the truth about God and man and the growing perception of this truth by humanity. Along with the revelation of man as the image and likeness of God it contains the story of a supposititious material man, an Adam-man made out of dust; and Christian Science separates the truth about spiritual man, which runs like a vein of pure gold through the inspired writings, from human beliefs, which call man material.
Belonging to the chronicle of mythical material man is the story of the building of the tower of Babel, with its confusion of tongues. We read in the Biblical account that the Lord said, "Let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." Here we have the same limited concept of God as Jehovah, a tribal God, of whom in a previous chapter it is recorded that He had made man "of the dust of the ground." Moreover, the continued story of material man, made out of dust, includes the belief that he does not understand his brother. This belief assumes many different forms of personal and racial animosity, warring temperaments, antagonisms of youth and age, which are much deeper causes of confusion than mere differences of dialect.
The Christian Scientists of to-day have a mighty task before them, so to build up and strengthen the Cause of Christian Science among men that this truth may not be adulterated and lost to future generations. The greatest foe towards the accomplishment of this end is not so much the world's antagonism to Truth as the disintegration in our own ranks which may come from the misunderstandings that arise among Christian Scientists themselves, so that "they may not understand one another's speech."
