Editorial December 7, 1929 Issue

Nothing Real Can Perish

Duncan Sinclair

Mortals believe in good and evil, truth and error, life and death, as if they were all equally real, with the result that they are often in a dilemma as to the present and the future. Time and again such questions as these will come to them: Will good and truth and life endure? Will evil persist? Will death continue as a scourge? And linked with these questions are the momentous ones, Will the life of man continue? Is it eternal, or will he perish even as the leaves of the tree? The change and decay which apparently beset mortal existence force themselves on mankind for recognition, and mankind in turn demands an explanation of, and an answer to, its perplexities.

Now, if men had but a clear understanding of reality, and, consequently, could distinguish between reality and unreality, their difficulties would in a large measure be resolved. How are they to obtain this understanding? Through Christian Science, which in the most explicit manner sets forth the nature of reality and draws the clearest possible line of demarcation between the real and the unreal.

What then is reality—that which is real? Christian Science declares that God and His creation constitute reality. And God it affirms to be infinite Spirit, Mind, Life, Truth, Love, divine Principle; while it reveals God's creation as the reflection of Himself. Moreover, Christian Science states that God is perfect, altogether good; and it maintains, as a necessary consequence, that creation—man and the universe—is likewise perfect, altogether good. Thus Christian Science makes known the profound truth that God and His creation—reality—are absolutely perfect, entirely good.

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