Editorial April 14, 1906 Issue

"Matter is temporal"

Charles Griffith Young

[The following letter and newspaper clipping emphasize the fact that material philosophy, after vainly trying to posit matter as substantial, now seems ready to abandon the effort and to fall into line with Mrs. Eddy's statement in Science and Health, made over thirty years ago, that "matter is nothing beyond an image in mortal mind." Mrs. Eddy, however, is not content to stop with the simple negative statement that there is no matter. She carries the discussion into the realm of Spirit and says, "Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is immortal, for matter is temporal, and is therefore a mortal phenomenon, sometimes beautiful, always transitory. . . . Science reveals nothing in Spirit out of which to create matter. Spirit is the only substance and consciousness recognized by divine Science" (Science and Health, pp. 277, 278). The letter referred to appears below. — Editor.]

New York, March 30, 1906. Mrs. Mary Baker G. Eddy, Concord, N. H.

Dear Mrs. Eddy :— The enclosed clipping, entitled "The End of Matter," from the New York Evening Sun of March 24, 1906, may be of interest to you, as indicating the changed theories and ideas of the world's learned professors regarding matter, and confirming its non-existence.

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