Article August 23, 1913 Issue

Christian Science teaches that there is but one Mind or...

John W. Doorly

Blackpool (England) Gazette News

Christian Science teaches that there is but one Mind or cause, whom men call God, and that true thoughts or good thoughts are expressions of this Mind and originated in this Mind, and not in a material brain. The material brain is that which judges according to the evidence of the five material senses, and can only conceive of being as material and finite. St. Paul rebukes the thoughts of this so-called brain and the evidence of material sense when he declares that "eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." Christian Scientists understand that St. Paul was only declaring that the kingdom of heaven, or being in its true state, could not be understood through the material senses, because material sense, or the false sense of being, was the only evil. St. Paul points out how these things can be understood when he declares in the next verse, "But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit." To a Christian Scientist, therefore, Mind, and not material brain, thinks whatever is good and true.

Your correspondent will recognize that this material brain gets out of order and thinks all kinds of things, and yet if God had made it, it would be "the same yesterday, and today, and forever," as the Scriptures declare. The Christian Scientist's way of salvation is right thinking, but this right thinking is in spite of the material brain, or the false evidence of material sense, and is based on reason and revelation. Does this correspondent suppose that it was the action of a material brain that enabled the Galilean fisherman Peter to raise the dead? The thinking that occurs in a material brain is a human belief based on matter, and is really what men call hell. Christian Science takes men out of this hell by teaching them what true thinking or knowing is.

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