Article April 21, 1928 Issue

An item by an editorial writer in your issue of recent...

Fred Yould, Committee on Publication for the State of Georgia, in the—Atlanta

Georgian

An item by an editorial writer in your issue of recent date is especially interesting to students of Christian Science, in that he reports a group of doctors, gathered recently at Washington, as deciding that "mind affects matter, and produces ills in the body." Such pronouncements surely evidence progress in medicine. However, not only was the fact that the fears, mistakes, and sins of the so-called human mind produce baneful effects on the body made apparent over sixty years ago by the advent of Christian Science, but a cure for these ills was offered mankind in its teachings as set forth in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.

As the writer did not make the position clear in stating that "Mrs. Eddy did not care much for the doctors," I believe this brief explanation is due the readers of the Georgian. Mrs. Eddy always held in high regard and expressed due recognition of the consecrated work of physicians. In Science and Health she states (p. 151), "Great respect is due the motives and philanthropy of the higher class of physicians." Likewise, other Christian Scientists recognize the value of all humanitarian work through whatever channel it may come. The vitality of the Science Mrs. Eddy discovered lies in what it reveals about God, the divine and infinite Mind. This Mind is the intelligence upon which Christian Scientists solely rely for all healing and spiritual regeneration. Thus, Christian Science is obviously the antipode of those systems which credit the human mind with power to cure disease. It was the wholly good and changeless intelligence, divine Mind, to which Paul referred when he said, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." To this Mind, God, Christian Science ascribes all honor, power, and glory.

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