Article September 17, 1904 Issue

Misconceptions

CHARLES F. BROWN.

Some people oppose Christian Science on the ground that "it is so difficult to understand, or to reconcile with the existing of things." They argue, "It requires a great stretch of imagination to say, There is no matter, and thus wipe one's self out of existence in the body." "If all is Mind, where did this body originate?"

It is generally believed that the material body dies, and with all the analyses and learned research of the ages, life has never been found in the body. Then why continue seeking for the secret of Life in this direction? If we acknowledge that God is Life, and that we are His children,—created "in His image and likeness."—we must be spiritual, since God is Spirit. To accept mentally the idea of one's self as flesh, blood, and bones, with material delights and sensations, severs the connection with Spirit—God—for His image and likeness can only be expressed in the beauty of character, and in conscious harmony with God. If we seek to discover, and to bring into demonstration our relation to Truth and Love, this will reveal the harmony of Life through Christian Science, and in no other way can death be conquered. If we are expressing imperfection or inharmony, it must be the result of wrong thinking, and thought must be inspired by right motives and ideas to produce harmonious results.

As God's creation is seen only in ideas spiritual, perfect, and eternal, so the hand, foot, body, or object should reflect a divine idea, and in proportion as one realizes that its reality or substance is in idea, the fear of loss or of death is eliminated from human consciousness, and the kingdom of heaven on earth dawns for the individual.

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