Article September 26, 1925 Issue

Will you kindly allow me to reply to a letter in your...

Louis Potts, Committee on Publication for Cheshire, England,—Chester

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Will you kindly allow me to reply to a letter in your recent issue. The statement, "God is mind, He is not divine Principle, not person," has never been made by Mrs. Eddy, as is asserted. To distinguish the infinite intelligence, which is God, from the human or carnal so-called mind, with its erring, finite concepts, Christian Science teaches that God is divine Mind. It also teaches that God, the creator of all, must be the divine Principle or cause of all that is real and true, and that the omnipresence of God precludes the possibility of His being personal, in the ordinary finite sense of the word. Mrs. Eddy deals with the terms, "person" and "personal," as applied to Deity, on page 116 of her book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as follows: "As the words person and personal are commonly and ignorantly employed, they often lead, when applied to Deity, to confused and erroneous conceptions of divinity and its distinction from humanity. If the term personality, as applied to God, means infinite personality, then God is infinite Person,—in the sense of infinite personality, but not in the lower sense. An infinite Mind in a finite form is an absolute impossibility."

The most satisfying answer to your correspondent's question, "Who is a Christian?" is given in the Master's own words: "He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also." The fact that Christian Science is, in a remarkable degree, accomplishing these works,—that is, the healing of both sin and disease through spiritual law,—is sufficient proof that this system, which our critic ignorantly describes as an "illusion" and "unscriptural," is based on absolute Truth and is in strict accordance with Christianity as taught and lived by Christ Jesus.

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