Article March 31, 1923 Issue

There is no relation between the metaphysics of Christian Science...

Hugh S. Hughes, Committee on Publication for the State of Wisconsin,—Racine

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There is no relation between the metaphysics of Christian Science and the metaphysics which attempts to combine matter with Spirit or divine Mind. The metaphysics of Christian Science is based upon absolute knowledge of God, as preached, taught, and demonstrated to the world by the master Christian, Christ Jesus, and rediscovered in the year 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy, through reason and revelation combined with her study of the Bible. Her works were the first ever published on Christian Science, and anything correct on the subject that has since appeared can be traced directly to her works.

When Christian Science was first discovered and presented to the world, over fifty-five years ago, both press and pulpit ridiculed its teachings. Since then its influence has permeated every quarter of the globe; and the world is gradually giving up its dependence upon matter to heal and save it from the discords of its own making, and is seeking something better. The human mind, however, still clings to its delusions, and, therefore, would hold to its counterfeits of the infinite Mind, God. Applied psychology is far from the truth of being. Mrs. Eddy has stated the position very clearly in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 59): "Christian Science reveals Mind, the only living and true God, and all that is made by Him, Mind, as harmonious, immortal, and spiritual: spiritual: the five material senses define Mind and matter as distinct, but mutually dependent, each on the other, for intelligence and existence. Science defines man as immortal, as coexistent and coeternal with God, as made in His own image and likeness." The correct teaching and practice of Christian Science depends upon the understanding of the divine Mind in contradistinction to the so-called human mind, carnal mind or mind of the flesh, as the Bible calls it, mortal mind as Mrs. Eddy has named it.

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