Article August 20, 1910 Issue

Our critic errs in his inference when he states that one...

R. Stanhope Easterday

South Bend (Ind.) Times

Our critic errs in his inference when he states that one so-called "element" of truth found in Christian Science, is "the influence of the mind over the body." The relationship and importance of "mind" and "body" as conceived of in Christian Science can best be couched in the terse words of Scriptural admonition thus: "The flesh profiteth nothing;" "They that are in the flesh cannot please God;" "Make not provision for the flesh," etc., together with Paul's startling arraignment of "the works of the flesh" in Galatians; as against the wholesome, life-giving, health-imparting, moral injunction, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus;" that "to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace:" "Willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."

That our Saviour did indeed heal the sick, as graciously conceded by our critic, can, we most earnestly contend, be "proved by experience," as well as deduced from the Scriptures; but that he healed by despotic control of so-called "mind" over so-called "body," through exercise of sheer force of blind human will, cannot be proven either by Scripture or experience. Jesus healed by the benign benediction, "Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole;" "Thy sins are forgiven thee," etc. Christian Science, a present-day recapitulation of the teachings and practice of Jesus, heals the sick now, as in the first centuries of the Christian era, through the prayer of faith, through the subjugation of the human will or the human mind, and absolute subjection to the Mind of Christ, or the Mind of the Father. Of such healing through spiritual means, and without drugs, mesmerism, or damaging exercise of willpower, an ever increasing volume of well authenticated testimony bears undeniable witness.

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