Article March 22, 1930 Issue

An editorial captioned "The Brain Rules," printed in the...

J. Latimer Davis, Committee on Publication for the State of Iowa,—Vinton

Cedar Valley Daily Times

An editorial captioned "The Brain Rules," printed in the Times on October 1, afforded your readers much helpfulness in that it discouraged the contemplation of disease and discord.

The closing sentence of the article made reference to Christian Science, with the obvious intention of commending that religious teaching. It was so worded, however, as possibly to lead the uninstructed in Christian Science to form a wrong concept of how discords are overcome through the practice of this religion. I would, therefore, like space in your paper to make a brief statement concerning that important point of Mrs. Eddy's teachings.

The editorial comment, "The creed of the Christian Scientists is founded on something genuine—the power of the human mind over the body," might be construed to mean that through some power of the so-called human mind Christian Science overcomes disease and other discords in human experience. But that is quite at variance with what Christian Science teaches. The effects of the human mind on the body are well known to the Christian Scientist, who commends every effort to think of health and harmony rather than disease and discord; but he does not rely upon the mere thinking or will-power of the human mind to preserve or restore normalcy. Knowing that God created man in His own image and likeness, as the Scriptures affirm, the Christian Scientist holds man to be spiritual, and not material. Spiritual man, according to Christian Science, is not subject to the human mind, but is governed by the divine Mind, God, his Maker. And so the Christian Scientist denies that the so-called human mind has power either to help or to hinder the man of God's creating.

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