Baptist Christian Science

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 9, 1908

Baptist Christian Science

According to a press report, a Baptist pastor of Washington, D. C., recently preached a sermon on the topic, “The universal mind, and how to come in contact with it and appropriate its great gifts.” Among other things, this preacher said:—

God's mind is the great mind; it is perfect, holy, and healthy. Man is spiritually the image of this universal power and mind. God is the Spirit, and man is like the Infinite Spirit. . . . Man's mind is a part of God's mind, and he may develop and appropriate, what that Spirit has, such as health, happiness, and success, but he has to come in contact with that Infinite Spirit. . . . Faith is the hand which lays hold of what the universal mind has to give, and appropriates those gifts for one's own or another's use. . . . You can overcome sickness, trouble, and everything by putting your mind, the sub-conscious mind, in contact with the universal mind. You can get all things from the universal mind as you get your electricity, by contact.

Thus are some of the essential principles of spiritualism and Christian Science taught in a professedly orthodox pulpit, and testimony is again borne to the fact that the influence of these great untruths has permeated far beyond the limits of their own acknowledged adherents. The effort to introduce this same philosophy into this denomination was successfully resisted.