Article November 1, 1913 Issue

A speaker at the County Teachers' Institute, as quoted in...

R. Stanhope Easterday

Shelbyville (Ind.) News

A speaker at the County Teachers' Institute, as quoted in a recent issue, so misstates Christian Science teaching as sadly to misinform your readers. The province of the newspaper being to give facts to the public, I am sure that a short statement regarding the fundamentals of Christian Science will be acceptable.

The speaker in question states, "The fundamental principle of Christian Science is correct," but straightway indicates that he does not comprehend that same infinite Principle, when he implies that such "fundamental" is "the close relationship between body and mind."

The fundamental Principle of Christian Science is nothing short of God, infinite Truth, and a fundamental teaching of Christian Science is in the Scriptural admonition, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Paul's ideal of Truth couched in this quotation inculcates the Mind of God, the Mind of the Father, which our Lord himself insisted was his only criterion of right thinking and right acting. Jesus' unequivocal declarations, "I do always those things that please him [God]" and "I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me," bespeak that more wholesome, healthful, and life-giving outline of mental activity which characterizes Christian Science effort and savors not one whit of the doubtful, misleading, stultifying so-called domination of "mind over matter" or of one human mind over another as hinted by our critic. In a word, Christian Science is a recapitulation of the teachings of Christ, whose psychology, as we have shown, was the psychology of the infinite or divine Mind, while his one sole principle of physiology was couched in the brief but significant admonition, "Take no thought for ... the body."

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