Article February 20, 1932 Issue

The editor of your "Looks at Books" section spoke correctly...

Albert E. Lombard, Committee on Publication for Southern California,—Los Angeles

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The editor of your "Looks at Books" section spoke correctly in the Graphic of September 15 when he indicated that Christian Science is "reviving what is known as primitive Christianity." Please let me thank him for emphasizing this fact, and for his other appreciative comments. However, there is a vast difference between Christian Science and the various other systems grouped with it in the item mentioned.

Christian Science teaches the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience—the allness—of God, divine Mind, and the consequent nothingness of the counterfeit mentality known as mortal, or carnal, mind. Divine Mind, not mortal mind, was utilized by Christ Jesus to heal sin, sickness, and other discords. It was divine Mind to which Paul referred when he said, "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." The false, material, hypnotic mentality was repudiated and overcome by the Master, and condemned by Paul in his statement, "The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be."

Following Christ Jesus, the Way-shower, Christian Scientists utilize the divine Mind, God, to destroy discordant physical and moral conditions. They do not resort to aggressive mental suggestion and will-power in exercising their supremacy over matter. In the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 167), Mary Baker Eddy says, "The scientific government of the body must be attained through the divine Mind."

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