Editorial September 1, 1923 Issue

Eternal Life

Duncan Sinclair

Christ Jesus was the great exponent and demonstrator of Life. It is true that his earthly career was brief; but throughout the whole of it he was unquestionably proving that Life is God and therefore indestructible. During the last three years, especially, he was continually demonstrating the powerlessness and unreality of those seeming forces which ultimate in the belief of death, thereby destroying sickness in all its forms and replacing sinful thoughts by his understanding of the perfection of the divine Principle, Life. Even the belief of death itself he was able to counteract, actually raising the dead, as in the cases of the daughter of Jairus, the widow of Nain's son, and Lazarus. It was Jesus of Nazareth, the greatest demonstrator of Life of all time, who said, "He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life. . . . For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself." And the Son, the real or spiritual man, is the image and likeness of God.

Now, the question of the eternality of Life is one of the greatest importance to mankind; for mortals are to an extraordinary extent mesmerized by the belief that Life is limited and destructible. Many, as yet, are unaware of the Science of being, still unenlightened on the nature of God or Life; with the result that they live in constant dread of annihilation, or at any rate, in a perpetual state of uncertainty as to the future. This fear is one of the most prolific causes of disease and suffering; and it ultimates in the belief of death. What mankind is in need of is the truth about Life, the Science of Life; and this Christian Science gives in the fullest possible measure.

Christian Science declares that God is Spirit or Life, and that He is infinite. Hence man, God's creation or offspring, must be spiritual and eternal; for the word "infinite" implies eternality. Mrs. Eddy states the truth very clearly on pages 289 and 290 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" when she writes: "Man is not the offspring of flesh, but of Spirit,—of Life, not of matter. Because Life is God, Life must be eternal, self-existent. Life is the everlasting I am, the Being who was and is and shall be, whom nothing can erase." The fundamental fact is that God is Life. Consequently, the entire spiritual universe, including man, reflects eternal Life. Man cannot possibly be separated from God, divine Life. Man is at-one with Life; has always been at-one with Life; and ever shall be.

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