Article November 16, 1918 Issue

The writer of the serial story appearing in the News, in...

W. Stuart Booth—Denver, Colo.

The Rocky Mountain News

The writer of the serial story appearing in the News, in classifying Christian Science with human will and New Thought, made a mistake which is common to the uninformed. Such an error is but humanly natural to those who have gained no higher concept of mind than the human or the carnal mind as Paul terms it, of which the so-called New Thought is but a newly named phase.

Because Jesus acknowledged no mind or power apart from the spiritual and divine, he was enabled to destroy every un-Godlike condition, such as sin, sorrow, and sickness; because he recognized the human will as unstable, erring, impotent, and the divine will as immutably right and irresistibly active for good, Jesus was able to say, "Not my will, but thine, be done," thereby clearing the way for his triumph over death and all evil. Paul's recognition of the divine Mind as the animating influence and power in the Master's words and works brought forth that oft quoted injunction: "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus."

Through her spiritual discernment of the truth stated in the Bible that God, good, is the only Mind and power, and that material sense, evil, is neither intelligence nor power, Mrs. Eddy discovered the Science of Christianity which had been long hidden by the world's materialistic beliefs. As one follows the behests of Christian Science the human will is subjected to the divine through the putting off of the human or carnal mind and the putting on of the Mind of Christ. On page 110 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy wrote: "No analogy exists between the vague hypotheses of agnosticism, pantheism, theosophy, spiritualism, or millenarianism and the demonstrable truths of Christian Science; and I find the will, or sensuous reason of the human mind, to be opposed to the divine Mind as expressed through divine Science."

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