Editorial November 26, 1927 ISSUE

Man's Eternal Noon

Albert F. Gilmore

With mankind in general, youth has been looked upon as an exalted state, the perpetuation of which would insure everlasting happiness. The Greeks exalted youth in their surpassing sculpture, and most of the ideals of physical perfection set forth in the centuries since have sprung from the masterpieces of Phidias and Praxiteles. David's concept of physical excellence found expression as the strength and endurance of youth, so that he wrote, "Bless the Lord, O my soul,.... who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." Renewal of the conditions of youth was, in the sight of the great singer, the greatest blessing to be received in human experience.

But to be eternally youthful would not fulfill divine purpose. Neither the Greek exaltation of youth nor David's song, so far as it was based upon a material concept of life, reveals the true state of man. It remained for Mrs. Eddy in her transcendent revelation to set forth the facts as to man's eternal exaltation, of his existence at the standpoint of perfection, which cognizes neither youth nor old age.

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