Article July 1, 1911 Issue

A critic asks why, if man is spiritual and not material,...

Frederick Dixon

Oswestry (Eng.) Advertiser

A critic asks why, if man is spiritual and not material, do Christian Scientists eat and drink? If he will forgive my saying so, he only puts that question because he has not grasped the meaning of the teaching of which it is the essence. Mrs. Eddy does say that man is the image and likeness of God, and that since God, in the words of the fourth gospel, is Spirit, this image and likeness is, therefore, spiritual. She does not, however, say that the sinning mortal, endowed with the carnal mind and sustained by food and drink, is the image and likeness of Spirit. What Science and Health, which is the text-book of the movement, does teach, is that in the exact proportion in which man gets rid of the carnal mind, and instead lets that Mind be in him which was also in Christ Jesus, the material man begins to give place to the spiritual man. The material man apparently needs food and drink to support him, because he is convinced that life is material. Exactly, however, in the proportion in which he attains the Mind of Christ, he learns that life is not material but spiritual, and begins to understand how Jesus could say, "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."

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