Chapter 11: 'Science and Health with Key to The Scriptures' by Mary Baker Eddy

Chapter XI - Some Objections Answered

Two different artists

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know that these ideals are real and eternal because drawn

from Truth, – they will find that nothing is lost, and all

is won, by a right estimate of what is real."

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The other artist replies: "You wrong my experience.

I have no mind-ideals except those which are both mental

and material. It is true that materiality renders these

ideals imperfect and destructible; yet I would not ex-

change mine for thine, for mine give me such personal

pleasure, and they are not so shockingly transcendental.

They require less self-abnegation, and keep Soul well out

of sight. Moreover, I have no notion of losing my old

doctrines or human opinions."

Choose ye to-day

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Dear reader, which mind-picture or externalized thought

shall be real to you, – the material or the spiritual?

Both you cannot have. You are bringing out

your own ideal. This ideal is either temporal

or eternal. Either Spirit or matter is your model. If you

try to have two models, then you practically have none.

Like a pendulum in a clock, you will be thrown back and

forth, striking the ribs of matter and swinging between the

real and the unreal.

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Hear the wisdom of Job, as given in the excellent trans-

lation of the late Rev. George R. Noyes, D.D.: –

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Shall mortal man be more just than God?

Shall man be more pure than his Maker?

Behold, He putteth no trust in His ministering spirits,

And His angels He chargeth with frailty.

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Of old, the Jews put to death the Galilean Prophet,

the best Christian on earth, for the truth he spoke and

demonstrated, while to-day, Jew and Christian can unite

in doctrine and denomination on the very basis of Jesus'

words and works. The Jew believes that the Messiah or