Editorial March 10, 1928 Issue

Divine Control

Albert F. Gilmore

Mrs. Eddy bases the teachings of Christian Science upon the fact of God's Mind's, omnipotence and omnipresence, upon which she postulates all its healing power. On page 177 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she states her conviction regarding this with characteristic positiveness: "The evidence of divine Mind's healing power and absolute control is to me as certain as the evidence of my own existence." The tremendous force of this statement is grasped in its full meaning only as one realizes somewhat of Mind's omnipotence, and that since Mind is infinite, it is the only power.

So accustomed have mortals become to think of material or physical force, so called, as real that they are slow to grasp the great truth that there can be no power or strength apart from omnipotence; and omnipotence belongs to God, Mind, which is the only power. It was recognition of God's power as infinite that enabled Elijah to declare that God was not in the fire, the earthquake, or the whirlwind, but in the "still small voice," which came from a divine source, that is, from God. On the basis of Mind's omnipotence and of the unreality of any other seeming power, all the healing work of Christian Science is accomplished. The understanding of Mind's omnipotence destroys all belief in the claims of an evil power which seem to control the lives and destinies of mortals. Therefore, a fundamental necessity, if one would heal by spiritual truth, is to lay hold of the fact of Mind's all-power.

Mind's control of the universe is complete and permanent; it is without exception or variation; it can never be set aside, annulled, or superseded. Mind's control is, moreover, harmonious—the government by infinite Mind of its perfect ideas, which constitute the spiritual universe, including man. In proportion as mortals understand this, does divine control become a demonstrable fact. Then the beliefs of sin and disease disappear, because they are no part of the divine economy. Mrs. Eddy says of this (Science and Health, p. 171), "Mind's control over the universe, including man, is no longer an open question, but is demonstrable Science." And she cites the proofs adduced by Christ Jesus of divine Mind's control in destroying sickness and sin, even in overcoming belief in death.

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