Article July 10, 1926 Issue

In your recent issue an article in the magazine section...

Ralph G. Lindstrom, Committee on Publication for the State of Colorado,—Denver

Rocky Mountain News

In your recent issue an article in the magazine section contained what was intended as a kindly reference to the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." However, the writer associates Christian Science with psychology, Coue's suggestive therapy, and so-called mental science. To correct possible resultant misunderstanding this letter is submitted.

Christian Science does not tolerate the operation of one human mind on another; nor does it teach mere suggestion or concentration, as the writer seems to believe. It shows how to displace the carnal mind, which Paul says is "enmity against God," through the process of becoming "spiritually minded," which, we are told, "is life and peace." We might concentrate on "two times two are five," but no amount of will power or suggestion could establish any such result. Neither would mere parrotlike repetition of the multiplication table save us from errors in arithmetic. It is the declaration of fact and right reasoning, leading to definite proof or demonstration, which establishes in individual experience the harmony and perfection which have forever remained intact in God's spiritual universe.

The real, spiritual man is and forever will be the individualized expression of God, the only Mind. Neither this Mind nor the real man requires healing; and certainly the carnal mind, with all its vagaries and ludicrous shifts of belief can do nothing to establish the status of either. Not by suggestion, but by truthful declaration; not by will power, but by humble submission to spiritual fact; not by concentration on some uncertain desire, but by consecration to a life expressing in increasing measure the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus," does the genuine Christian Scientist strive for healing and ultimate salvation. This ultimate salvation is a conscious, constant realization, and therefore expression, of man's real status. Since God is good, is Spirit, is Mind, we can manifest man's status as God's expression only in goodness, purity, spirituality, unselfishness, advancing through faith to understanding, and thus to demonstration of these and numerous other spiritual qualities. As we do so, our bondage to their opposites, summed up as sin and sickness, proportionately disappears. We humbly accept Paul's comprehensive admonition to the Romans: "Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

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