Article October 10, 1914 Issue

In the Times of recent date appeared an article, "Is...

Ezra W. Palmer

The Denver (Col.) Times

In the Times of recent date appeared an article, "Is Mind over Matter a Truth or a Fallacy?" The writer of this article, while faintly conceding some power to mind, takes the position that the basis of life is physical, and that mind is the servant of the body. As this writer disparages healing by reliance on mind, a brief comment from a Christian Science standpoint is submitted.

It will be apparent at once that mind is either superior to matter or it is not. There can be no middle ground or uncertain strivings. If it can be shown, even in one instance, that mind controls the body, the question is settled. The demonstration of the superiority of mind in one instance, shows conclusively the possibility of the power of mind in all instances. Thus Columbus by one voyage demonstrated the error of all previous conceptions of the earth; and Morse, by one slender wire between Baltimore and Washington, revolutionized the means of communication. The life of Jesus proved conclusively the control of Spirit over the universe, and the body of man as well. He healed the sick, raised the dead, quelled the storm, appeared behind closed doors, and arose from the dead, because he knew the laws of Mind which govern all things.

Those who decry the ability of Mind to destroy disease, do so because of their own ignorance of the power of God, which is always available. To such critics the body appears to be largely self-acting and subject to diseases and afflictions which the individual is helpless to control. The idealistic conception of the universe has been held by thinkers in all ages. Mrs. Eddy not only insisted that Mind was the basis of the universe, but proved it to be practicable in the affairs of life, as did Jesus, by actually demonstrating that all "causation is Mind, acting through spiritual law" (Science and Health, p. 417). That her position was correct, an unnumbered multitude of Christian Scientists have proved to their own satisfaction by the healing of sickness and abnormal conditions which interfere with man's harmony and health.

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