MIND AND MATTER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 597, 25 February 1929, Page 14

MIND AND MATTER

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCHES “Mind” was the subject of the lessonsermon in all Churches of Christian Science on Sunday, February 24. The golden text was from Corinthians i., 10: “I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” Among the citations which comprised the lesson-sermon was the following from the Bible: “O, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out! For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counsellor? For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things, to Whom be glory for ever—amen.” (Romans xi., 33, 34, 36). The lesson-sermon also included the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures,” by Alary Baker Eddy: “In the material world thought has brought to light with great rapidity many useful wonders. With like activity have thought’s swift pinions been rising toward the realm of the real, to the spiritual cause of those lower things which give impulse to inquiry. Belief in a material basis, from which may be deduced all rationality, is slowly yielding to the idea of a metaphysical basis, looking away from matter to mind as the cause of every effect. Materialistic hypotheses challenge metaphysics to meet in final combat” (page 268).