Editorial April 26, 1969 Issue

Taming the Heart

Helen Wood Bauman

The Christian Scientist reads with interest—but detachment— reports of methods of taming the action of the heart through electrical pacers. No doubt such technological means will continue to be developed for and by physicians as long as people believe that matter controls the body.

But the student of Christian Science is taught that God, divine Mind, is the only animating, governing Principle of man, His image, and that Mind's intelligent control is what needs to be demonstrated. Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Shall the opinions, systems, doctrines, and dogmas of men gauge the animus of man? or shall his stature in Christ, Truth, declare him? Governed by the divine Principle of his being, man is perfect." ^{ Christian Science versus Pantheism, p. 11;}

In scientific Christianity man's stature in Christ is understood to be his spiritual perfection. This understanding brings a healthy control to the physical body, which is, after all, temporary, the reflection of human thought, and unreal. Irregularities of organic action as well as depressive or over-stimulative conditions can be tamed, made normal, by the influence of the one Mind, God.

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