Editorial November 19, 1910 Issue

IMMORTALITY

Annie M. Knott

Job's mournful question, "If a man die, shall he live again?" is fully answered in the words of the Master: "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death;" and again, in the ringing declaration of Christian Science; "In Science, man's immortality depends upon that of God, good, and follows as a necessary consequence of the immortality of good" (Science and Health, p. 81).

In spite of the fact that Jesus' teachings are held to be the final word of authority for all professed Christians, there is often found among them, as well as on the part of non-believers, an element of doubt and uncertainty as to man's immortality; nor is this surprising, where material evidence is relied upon as decisive on this all-important question. If we believe that man is matter, we may by the fairest logic accept Job's conclusion: "Man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep;" but while theology has ever pointed away from this to the spiritual fact, it was to something which should be realized after death, hence the doubt and unsatisfied longing for a faith which was susceptible of present proof and reasonable explanation, and Christian Science offers this to the sincere truth-seeker.

The fact cannot be overlooked that so-called material law pays no respect to goodness. According to this belief, saint and sinner are alike mortal, but Christian Science has come to awaken us to the spiritual sense which recognizes the immortality of all that expresses God; and whatever the material evidence, it stands by Christ Jesus' declaration and refuses to "see death."

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