Article January 21, 1939 Issue

Let me thank you very cordially for the appreciative...

Miss Ellen Graham, Committee on Publication for Lanarkshire, Scotland,—Glasgow

Evening Citizen

Let me thank you very cordially for the appreciative notice in regard to Mary Baker Eddy published in a recent issue. As there are one or two points in the article which convey a misapprehension of Christian Science, I shall be glad if you will give me space to make a correction.

The article said that "Christian Science has been described as a system of theosophic and therapeutic doctrine, which is an erudite way of stating that it is a conception which places mind over matter." The description of Christian Science as "theosophic" is erroneous, for, as Mrs. Eddy has stated in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 110, 111), "No analogy exists between the vague hypotheses of agnosticism, pantheism, theosophy, spiritualism, or millenarianism and the demonstrable truths of Christian Science." "Therapeutic" it certainly is, and successfully so.

When the phrase "Mind over matter" is used in Christian Science, the word "Mind" is always written or printed with an initial capital letter and means "God"—even that Mind without which the Master said he could do nothing (John 5:19); it never means the human mind. In Science and Health (p. 469) we read, "Mind is God." And again, "There can be but one Mind, because there is but one God; and if mortals claimed no other Mind and accepted no other, sin would be unknown."

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