Editorial February 14, 1953 Issue

LOOKING AHEAD

Robert Ellis Key

When we look ahead, what is the picture presented? Is it one of joy or sorrow, gain or loss, strength or weakness? Isaiah gives the correct idea of looking ahead when he writes (45:11, 12): "Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me. I have made the earth, and created man upon it."

If, when we look to the future, we do so with expectancy of good, it will help us to realize our sonship with God and establish the fact that in reality we always live and move in the spiritual universe of God's creating. Spiritually understood, this is what the Bible text indicates.

Some think of the future with apprehension. They accept the material theory of man and the universe with its boundaries of birth and death. The prophet did not accept this view of life. It is not an outlook gained from the Scriptures or from the teachings of Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 246): "Man, governed by immortal Mind, is always beautiful and grand. Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty, and holiness."

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