Article May 17, 1947 Issue

Power of Right Thinking

JEANNE ROE PRICE

"Mortal mind and body are one." So writes Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 177). Despite an unbelieving, prejudiced world our Leader with patient, unselfed, steadfast courage and love demonstrated with scientific accuracy the truth of this statement; and Christian Scientists, in the degree they understand her revelation, are demonstrating this spiritual verity.

Today the medical profession quite generally admits the close relationship between the human mind and body; that is, it sees the effect that thinking has on the body. Grief, discouragement, self-pity, anger, hatred, or fear, it agrees, weakens the human body, causing congestion or friction, whereas joyful, unselfed thinking relieves tension. Such sayings as "pale with anger," "paralyzed with fear," "sick with worry," are familiar to most of us. In Proverbs (17:22) we are told, "A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones." And we are also told that as one "thinketh in his heart, so is he" (Prov. 23:7).

On page 210 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mrs. Eddy writes, "Beloved Christian Scientists, keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them." Farther on in the same paragraph she continues: "Good thoughts are an impervious armor; clad therewith you are completely shielded from the attacks of error of every sort. And not only yourselves are safe, but all whom your thoughts rest upon are thereby benefited." A woman whose only son was serving overseas in the air corps of his country discovered how important these truths are.

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