Article March 23, 1912 Issue

Our critic says: "Anybody who has made any study...

Willis D. McKinstry

Chanute (Kan.) Tribune

Our critic says: "Anybody who has made any study whatever of psychology knows something of the marvelous influence of the mind upon physical organism." Kindly grant me space to say that this statement alone is sufficient evidence to prove our critic's conception of Christian Science is a misapprehension of its teachings.

Christian Science is purely spiritual, as God, Spirit, is its basis. One can never understand Spirit and its manifestation through the study of matter or from a physical view-point. Jesus said: "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." Psychology does not teach one of Spirit, it treats of the so-called human mind and its claim of activities; it was to this mind Paul referred when he said, "To be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

We agree with our critic that to eliminate worry and fear gives a surcease from human discord, but this is not sufficient. To have a full and perfect salvation one must be liberated from every sense testimony. The pleasures and pains of the material senses must be reckoned with as a claim of intelligence, substance, and power apart from God, who is omniscient and omnipotent. To think or believe that one with his own mind, so called, can free himself from the claim of sin and suffering of his own body, is a sin of itself, and as all sin brings suffering, this sin of believing that man is something of himself must be overcome.

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