Editorial October 29, 1927 Issue

"The former things are passed away"

Duncan Sinclair

What a glorious vision was that of the beloved John on Patmos! The heavens had opened to him and he saw God, God whom Christ Jesus had revealed, reigning in universal consciousness,—revealed truth, the Christ-idea, accepted by all,—"and death and hell . . . cast into the lake of fire." It was no idle vision, that of John, but one he knew would be realized. And so he could prophesy, in words which have been as balm to many a wounded heart, "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away."

A few verses before the words just quoted, John had written, "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." It is plain that the result which he depicts—the passing away of pain, sorrow, crying, tears, and death—is dependent upon the appearing of the new heaven and earth. What can this mean? Does it indicate that a new species of material universe would come into existence in which inharmony should be unknown; or what? Christian Science answers all such questions.

Christian Science takes the student of the Bible—of Revelation—to the very fundamentals of being, the eternal truths about God, which, should he accept them, will enable him to translate the Scriptures for himself in a manner at once rational and demonstrable. Among the first of these truths the student learns is that God is infinite Spirit or Mind, and that since God is the only creator, being Spirit, His creation must be spiritual. The instant he sees this, the new heaven and the new earth begin to appear to him, and the first heaven and the first earth—the material sense of creation—begin to pass away. What an awakening this is to mortals, those who have believed in the reality of matter and of a material creation!

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