Article October 23, 1948 Issue

NO SEPARATION IN MIND

JANE ABBOTT SMITH

When one is faced with grief and feels a sense of incompleteness because of separation from someone with whom one's activities and happiness have been closely interwoven, one can find healing by turning to the Christ, Truth. Sticking diligently to the rules given in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, enables one to work out such problems scientifically, step by step, and find peace. The Scriptural promise reads (Phil. 4:7), "And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."

Paul declared (I Cor. 15:50, 53): "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. ... For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." Mrs. Eddy reveals to mankind the truth about God and man and shows not only why the mortal must be put off for the immortal, but how to accomplish this. Thousands the world over are profiting by her revelation of Christian Science and are finding through their study of its textbooks, the Bible and Science and Health, the answer to their vexing problems as well as surcease from suffering.

Christian Science teaches that material existence is the counterfeit of spiritual existence, and that to the extent each of us casts out of his thinking all belief in the counterfeit he brings into his human experience an increasing measure of perfection and harmony. One learns that he must persistently replace the false beliefs which are causing him suffering, either mental or physical, with the spiritual facts of being. Some false beliefs to be dealt with in the case of grief and separation are that happiness and joy are the product or effect of something other than the great First Cause; for example, that they are dependent upon the companionship of a human person; that lovable, spiritual, and eternal qualities can be confined, limited, or lost; that man is material and finite, and therefore can be localized or absent; and that there are minds and beings many. In reality there is but one Mind, one Life, one Supreme Being, whom the real man forever reflects.

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