Editorial July 30, 1955 Issue

THE VICTORY OF SPIRIT

Helen Wood Bauman

Paul set forth the mental elements involved in the Christian struggle for salvation when he wrote to the Galatians (5:17), "The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other." A little later he said (6:8), "He that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting."

Christian Science makes a clear distinction between Spirit, divine Mind, and the flesh, or the physical sense of life; it proves the former to be real and the latter unreal. The victory of Spirit comes to those who acknowledge the ability of God to rule all life and who yield up fleshly beliefs, which resist the power of Spirit. All the evil which seems to burden the world will disappear as this acknowledgment is universally made.

Spirit, Mind, does not struggle, but it acts. The self-assertion of God is as resistless as the dawn. Mary Baker Eddy explains this action in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." After speaking of the need for learning how mankind govern the body, she says (p. 251), "We should learn whether they govern the body through a belief in the necessity of sickness and death, sin and pardon, or govern it from the higher understanding that the divine Mind makes perfect, acts upon the so-called human mind through truth, leads the human mind to relinquish all error, to find the divine Mind to be the only Mind, and the healer of sin, disease, death."

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