Article May 8, 1926 Issue

In the Sunday Oregonian an article, "My Religion,"...

Theodore Burkhardt, Committee on Publication for the State of Oregon,—Portland

Oregonian

In the Sunday Oregonian an article, "My Religion," contains a statement which needs correction. The author, in explaining and advocation the theory "that in each of us are two minds, the subjective and the objective," speaks of what he calls the "greater or universal mind" (God), as dwelling in "our subjective mind;" and then he says, "Mrs. Eddy discovered this truth and used it in 'Science and Health.'" In this he greatly mistakes Mrs. Eddy's discovery and teachings.

The truth revealed by the discovery of Mary Baker Eddy, as set forth in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," has nothing in common with such theories. Christian Science eschews all use of human will power and methods of suggestion, and never employs formulas. It is planted squarely on the teaching of the Scriptures that there is but one God, hence that there can be but one Mind and that one divine. Christian Science, as did Jesus, attributes to this one and only God all power, all intelligence, all presence. "It is the spirit," said the Master, "that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing." The mind of mortals (which the Apostle Paul called "the carnal mind," and which he said "is enmity against God"), being responsible for the ills flesh is heir to, salvation from these ills must come from some source outside this carnal selfhood. Mrs. Eddy discovered and taught that mortal man is a false, temporal concept, and that the real man of God's creating is not material and mortal, but spiritual and immortal. As the false human concept of many minds gives way to the spiritual understanding that there is but one Mind, the divine Mind, man's true selfhood is revealed as harmonious and immortal—the image and likeness of his Maker.

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