Article October 22, 1938 Issue

Modern Mythology

[Written Especially for Young People]

ANNE MARJORIE YOUNG

A pupil in a Christian Science Sunday School once said to her teacher: "What we are learning about ourselves here in class is so contrary to what we are being taught in school that I find it confusing. In school we are being taught about our material bodies, and here we are learning that there is no reality in matter!"

The young Christian Scientist may be required to study the physical so-called sciences in school, but he need not let this disturb him. The material body is but a manifestation of mortal mind. And in studying about the body and the material laws governing it, we are not really studying about ourselves at all. We are merely taking a course in what may be termed modern mythology; learning what mortal mind is saying about its own false creation—what it believes to be true about itself. "Matter" and "mortal mind" are both defined for us in the Glossary of our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and one term used in both definitions is "mythology."

"Human belief has sought out many inventions, but not one of them can solve the problem of being without the divine Principle of divine Science. Deductions from material hypotheses are not scientific. They differ from real Science because they are not based on the divine law" (ibid., p. 273). Some of the "many inventions" sought out by human belief are the material, counterfeit sciences so frequently included in the school curriculum. Perhaps the two which cause the young student the most concern are physiology and psychology, for these claim to explain so-called mortal man to himself.

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