Article March 17, 1917 Issue

Death Destroyed

ELSA CROSS

In his first epistle to the Corinthians the apostle declares that "the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death." Our beloved Leader writes in Science and Health, "Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin." Again, in the same chapter, she says, "It is a sin to believe that aught can overpower omnipotent and eternal Life, and this Life must be brought to light by the understanding that there is no death, as well as by other graces of Spirit" (pp. 426, 428).

We need to see to it that we do not underestimate the importance of these teachings, or allow them to become inoperative in our consciousness through lack of sufficient practice. We cannot afford to deal lightly with the thoughts of death which are aggressively suggested to us in one form or another every day. We should meet and dispose of them with Christian Science, otherwise we are liable to reap the results of entertaining wrong conceptions of life eternal.

The days are not far past when such inventions as the automobile, the aeroplane, the wireless telegraph and telephone, were declared to be impossible and ridiculous daydreams, and this by members of the community who were looked up to as intelligent citizens. Nevertheless, thanks to the patient, persevering work of inventors, we are today realizing the value and usefulness of these same things. The genuine Christian Scientist stands in much the same position as these pioneers of invention; he has undertaken to demonstrate the healing power of divine Truth in every department of human life, and he must prove this in the face of every error,—sin, disease, and death.

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