Rev. Dr. A. A. Miner, pastor of the Second Universalist church of Boston, preached a sermon on "Mind and Body," before his congregation, Jan. 11, basing his remarks upon the text: "According to thy faith be it unto thee." (Matt. ix. 29.) In speaking of the power of mind over body, he declared that he was approaching a question sacred, biblical, and philosophical. The power of mind over body as a general principle is conceded. All acts are the result of volition. Thus at the threshhold of inquiry we part company with the materialists, who contend that mind is a mere efflorescence and outcome of physical agency. There is, to touch the ethical side, far more possibility in the field of spiritual blessing and moral recovery than people realize.
But Dr. Miner limits the power of mind thereby proving that he has not yet fully accepted the new faith based upon the tenets, "All is Mind," and "Mind is Omnipotent," abiding by which the Christian Scientists prove their purely mental therapeutics limitless in power, if understood. Mrs. Eddy, in the book Science and Health, Vol. I., p. 143, says: "The universal ignorance of mind and its recuperative energies occasions the only skepticism regarding metaphysical pathology." When the principles of the Scientists on the nature and power of Mind are investigated and comprehended, there will be no scepticism expressed in statement by investigators, whatever weakness in demonstration practising adherents exhibit.
