The very kindly intentioned reference...

William D. Kilpatrick

William D. Kilpatrick, Manager of Committees on Publication Daily Times, Gloucester, Massachusetts

The very kindly intentioned reference to Christian Science in a syndicated column in a recent issue of your paper might tend, in the minds of your readers, to a rather restricted and more or less confused sense of the application of spiritual power as understood, taught, and practiced by Christian Scientists.

Spiritual power comes from God. Most people will agree to that. The question then revolves around what may be considered a right concept of God. One of the synonyms used by Mary Baker Eddy in her definition of God (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 465) is "Mind."

St. Paul gives us this helpful advice: "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus." Obviously, the Mind "which was also in Christ Jesus" was not human or mortal; it was divine. Therefore, to have that Mind in us "which was also in Christ Jesus" is to express "spiritual power."

Mind, or God, is manifested through man—through divine or spiritual ideas. The active and conscious individual expression, then, of divine Mind, which is all-knowing and which includes all wisdom, naturally relieves one of the limitations, inhibitions, misconceptions, and illusions of a limited human mind, and unites one consciously with God, thus bringing into immediate operation "spiritual power," which is definitely superior to "mere words" (to quote from your paper) which express and are governed by all human limitations.

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