Article October 15, 1927 Issue

In a recent issue of your paper a writer states, in substance,...

Edgar McLeod, Committee on Publication for Northern California,—San Rafael

Marin Journal

In a recent issue of your paper a writer states, in substance, that the Christian Science theory is based on the assumption that "the Universal Mind is the cause of the creation of the Universe, and hence all things are the product of that mind;" also that it is an error to deny the existence of matter and to claim that everything is mind. As the writer uses the word "mind" rather loosely, to avoid misapprehension it should be stated that in Christian Science when the word Mind is capitalized it is used as a synonym for God; when not capitalized, it refers to the human or mortal mind, which Paul terms the "carnal mind." Christian Science teaches that God is Spirit, and that His creation, therefore, must be spiritual and indestructible; that divine Mind having created all and pronounced it good; matter was not included in the divine plan. The teaching of Christian Science that matter is an illusion of the material senses, finds complete corroboration in Christ Jesus' demonstration of spiritual law, in his walking upon the water, his passing through closed doors, his feeding the multitude by the multiplication of a few loaves and fishes, and by his presenting to his disciple, three days after his crucifixion, the selfsame body, with the spear wound and the prints of the nails, which had hung on the cross. Incidentally, the laboratories of to-day find matter more illusive and its status much more doubtful and uncertain than when Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, first declared its unreality something over half a century ago.

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