Article November 21, 1914 Issue

"To be spiritually minded"

BLANCHE HERSEY HOGUE

In his letter to the Romans the apostle Paul tells us that "to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace." Nothing could be clearer than this. To dwell in material, selfish, or, in Paul's words, carnal thought-habits, leads to death, is death; but we may, if we will, exchange this carnal, destructive thought for life-preserving knowledge. Spiritual-mindedness preserves life, is itself life and peace. Thus the cleavage between spiritual goodness and materiality becomes the cleavage between living and dying; between the quality of thought which sustains life and the mistaken beliefs which tend to destroy it. Truly, according to Paul, in righteousness we are indestructible; in error we are not safe.

On page 360 of Science and Health Mrs. Eddy writes: "Dear reader, which mind-picture or externalized thought shall be real to you, —the material or the spiritual? Both you cannot have." Again on page 534 we read, "The Son of the Virgin-mother unfolded the remedy for Adam, or error." Here we have set before us the necessity for continuous choice, every day and hour, of Spirit or matter for our mental contemplation; and we are told that the remedy for the Adam-dream in which "all die," is found in that Mind of Christ in which all shall "be made alive." Now what man in trouble would refuse an obvious remedy for his trouble, a remedy which, according to Paul, lies in that spiritually true right-thinking which literally is "life and peace"? What can lift thought from depressing material belief, save the activity of spiritual thinking?

The one sure remedy for human woe is the activity of the right idea of God, man, and the universe operating in individual consciousness, and divine Mind feeds human thought with these right ideas, with the true understanding of being. Who, if he knew the full goodness of God and his own receptivity to this goodness, could cherish sin or fear sickness? To adopt into our thinking the right idea of life, as Christianity in its wholeness reveals it, is to enter upon a process of spiritualizing our thought, and this at once introduces spiritual experiences into our daily affairs. "Life and peace" become present facts with us, because "to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

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