Article May 22, 1937 Issue

According to the report in your last issue, a vicar in one...

Stanley M. Sydenham, Committee on Publication for Yorkshire, England,

Dewsbury District News

According to the report in your last issue, a vicar in one of his services said, "Christian Science, in our day, is based on the contention of the undoubted fact of mind as different from matter, and a no less certain fact of the influence of suggestion and belief over physical health."

With regard to the first part of this statement, as to mind being different from matter, the mind here referred to is the human, mortal mind, which is the antipode of the divine Mind, the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus." Whilst mind and matter appear to be separate, or different, Christian Science reveals that matter is but a mode of material consciousness, and that it seems real only to the individual consciousness that believes it to be so.

Mrs. Eddy has given many definitions of matter, and one of them suitable for our purpose is, "another name for mortal mind" (Science and Health, p. 591). This mortal mind is the carnal mind, which St. Paul declares is "enmity against God." To God, matter does not exist, for, because God is Spirit and God is All, there cannot truly be any opposite of Spirit. Matter will continue to seem real only so only as material-mindedness may seem to continue. Complete spiritualization of consciousness will in due course cause all material objects or things to disappear, since these are but false mental concepts, and in their place will be seen the perfect ideas of God.

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