Article May 13, 1950 Issue

DARE TO CHANGE YOUR MIND

WALTER BRENZIKOFER

Occasionally it is said, often in lighter vein, "It is a woman's privilege, to change her mind." To change one's mind, however, is a privilege men and children may claim as well. It is of the utmost importance to all that they exercise this privilege when it involves the exchanging of false material beliefs for the spiritual truths of being as revealed in Christian Science; for such a change may make the difference between success and failure, happiness and sorrow, health and sickness, life and death.

The purpose of Christianity is to change humanity's thought from matter to Spirit, from the belief in the reality and power of evil to the understanding of the allness of God, good. It is related in the book of Acts (chapters 27, 28) that the ship on which the Apostle Paul was being taken to Rome as a prisoner was wrecked in a storm, and that they all escaped to the island of Melita.

The people of the island received them kindly and built a fire because of the cold and rain. Paul then laid a bundle of sticks on the fire; and the narrative states: "There came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand. And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live. And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm. Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god."

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