Article October 13, 1917 Issue

An article appeared in the Patriot entitled "You Get What You Think...

Rose A. Lilly in

Jackson (Mich.) Patriot

An article appeared in the Patriot entitled "You Get What You Think." The fair, open-minded way in which the writer endeavored to point out the good in Christian Science is to be commended. In teaching the allness of Mind and the consequent nothingness of its opposite, matter, Christian Science makes a clear distinction between the divine Mind, or God, and the so-called mortal mind. In other words, it is the Mind which was in Christ Jesus, and not the mortal or "carnal" mind, which Paul says is "enmity against God," to which Mrs. Eddy refers on page 468 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," where she says, "All is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all." Christian Scientists understand that to the extent that they come into possession of the Mind of Christ and intelligently put off or reject the carnal mind and its testimony, they demonstrate that matter and its attendant ills are unreal, since matter is nothing but mortal mind or human thought objectified.

Christian Science does not deny that disease exists as a false belief of mortal mind. However, it does deny that disease exists as a reality of God's creation, and proceeds in the manner taught and demonstrated by Jesus the Christ to eliminate it from human experience. That Christian Science healing is based upon a clear understanding and application of the words and works of the Master is proved by the fact that through its ministrations sickness and disease, both functional and organic, are being permanently overcome in the manner prescribed by him and without resort to material means. It would be useless to attempt to convince hundreds and thousands of good people who have been raised from beds of suffering by Christian Science after having exhausted all material means in search for health that they need anything material as a healing agency. They have learned from experience the truth of Mrs. Eddy's words on page 67 of Science and Health, "Grace and Truth are potent beyond all other means and methods."

Had the great Physician believed that some diseases were the result of material and others of mental causes, and that some were harder to heal than others, he would have placed himself on a level with those he would help and thus would have limited the power of God through whom the healing works were accomplished. Apparently it took no greater effort on his part to heal the man "which had a spirit of an unclean devil" than it did to restore whole the impotent man "which had an infirmity thirty and eight years" in the sheep market at Jerusalem.

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