Article August 18, 1923 Issue

Mrs. Eddy starts her reasoning in Science and Health...

Charles M. Shaw, Committee on Publication for Lancashire, England,—Burnley

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Mrs. Eddy starts her reasoning in Science and Health from the great revealing truth that God, Mind, or Spirit, is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. Hence, she deduces the fact that there is in reality but one Mind or intelligence, and that this Mind cognizes only the spiritual, the real, and the true. Further, she shows us that there claims to be a supposititious opposite of this Mind which she terms mortal mind, and which to mortal experience has the semblance of reality. In this she is true to Scripture; for Paul differentiates between the spiritual and the carnal, designating the latter as "enmity against God." Therefore it is from the standpoint of the reality of divine Mind that mortal mind is not real, and in so far as man realizes his unity with God he proves it unreal.

That this is not mere abstract teaching, without practical value, is seen when belief and understanding are compared in human experience. Belief is always a form of ignorance, whether the thing believed is true or false. But understanding is definite knowledge and gives power and freedom. Jesus said, "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 379), Mrs. Eddy mentions the well-authenticated case of a criminal, sentenced to death, who was obtained by medical students, in the days when such things were allowed, for the purpose of experiment. They succeeded in making him believe that he was bleeding to death. And he died, though he did not lose a drop of blood. He died from his belief; though it was a false one. Had any one come to him while he was undergoing the experiment and told him the truth he would not have died. This incident illustrates both the nature and the effect of mortal mind, and indicates how divine Mind, or Truth, delivers. Christian Science shows that all our ills spring from the carnal or mortal mind, but it unfolds the great deliverance brought by the Christ.

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