Editorial February 26, 1910 Issue

"THIS IS LIFE ETERNAL"

John B. Willis

That fine, high living is impossible to those entertaining a false concept of life is so manifest as to be a truism. Equally manifest is it that, with respect to origin, governing Principle, and moral obligation, there can be but one true life for all to know and live: and yet, if mortal thought and conduct were looked to for the definition of life, few human terms would be found to have been given so great a variety of meanings.

In the thought of the multitude life is indissolubly associated with matter, in which it finds embodiment and expression. It is believed to be both the cause and the consequence of normal physical conditions, and if the senses are satisfied, and the customary course of experience is run. life is thought to have been completed, and death is accepted as a legitimate part of its history. In addition to all this, life means for many the satisfaction of ambitions for social distinction, public preferment, the gain and exercise of money power, artistic or professional rank and success, etc. Thus through the entire gamut of human experience the aspirations and doings of men are witnessing to the unnumbered concepts of what life means.

Christ Jesus expressed the purpose of his earthly ministry in his statement. "I am come that they might have life.' and his every wondrous word and work may be said to have contributed to the enrichment of the content of this statement. He came to separate the thought of life from every flavor of imperfection and unideality, —to make it appear in all the beauty and tenderness, the strength and sovereignty of a divine idea, and Christian Science is redefining and redemonstrating the meaning which he gave to it.

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