Article February 25, 1939 Issue

Your correspondent "Verity" writes in a recent issue...

William K. Primrose,

Chatham News

Your correspondent "Verity" writes in a recent issue that Mrs. Eddy's major error is that she failed to observe or ignored the fact that mind needs a material medium to find expression. By this statement your correspondent shows that he fails to perceive the distinction between the divine Mind, which is infinite, and the mortal or carnal mind, which St. Paul describes as "enmity against God." He also apparently does not appreciate the difference in the two records of creation in Genesis.

On page 293 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mrs. Eddy writes: "Matter and mortal mind are but different strata of human belief. The grosser substratum is named matter or body; the more ethereal is called mind. This so-called mind and body is the illusion called a mortal, a mind in matter. In reality and in Science, both strata, mortal mind and mortal body, are false representatives of man."

The divine Mind, which is infinite, cannot change and become finite, nor can Spirit be expressed in its opposite, matter. Likewise, man made in the image and likeness of God cannot become unlike his creator. Truth does, however, act on human belief, and that action is shown in the healing of sin and in the healing of disease, both functional and organic, through prayer as understood in Christian Science.