Article June 24, 1933 Issue

I have read with interest the letter by "M.S." in your...

Mrs. Mary Blanch Jones, Committee on Publication for Gloucestershire, England,—Bristol

Western Daily Press and Bristol Mirror

I have read with interest the letter by "M.S." in your issue of today. It is no part of my duties to enter into controversy; my concern is only to ensure as far as possible that the teachings of Christian Science are not misstated. For instance, "M.S." writes as though he thought Mrs. Eddy had made a contradictory statement on page 356 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," whereas she is stating an impossible proposition in order to show its impossibility, a proposition which she, as "M.S." states, "has denied from one end of her writings to the other."

Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p. 177), "Mortal mind and body are one" (that is, the supposer and the supposition as termed by "M.S."). A mistake comes about as a result of incorrect or false thinking, and is remedied by a knowledge of the truth about the subject in question. The mistake has, therefore, no real existence, but when the truth is known, the error disappears from human consciousness "as naturally and as necessarily as darkness gives place to light and sin to reformation" (ibid., Pref., p. xi).

Christian Science teaches, as does the Bible, that the real man is God's image and likeness, and expresses God's thoughts, or, in other words, reflects the divine Mind; whereas mortal man is the counterfeit of the real man, and his mortal or material consciousness must be, as St. Paul shows, "transformed by the renewing of your mind," or, in everyday language, by thinking God's thoughts.

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