Article March 11, 2013 Issue

'How many minds are there?'

H. M. Wyeth

It should be thoroughly understood that all men have one Mind, one God and Father, one Life, Truth, and Love.

—Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 467

At various times during Christian Science class instruction, especially when our class seemed to bog down in some particularly sordid aspect of mortality, our teacher would pause, look around, and ask, “How many minds are there?” I loved this question because it allowed no equivocating. For anyone naming the name of Christian Science, there was only one possible answer: a resounding, “One!”