Article May 24, 1930 Issue

"Newness of life"

EMMA H. SAYLES

Men are calling for newness in every line of endeavor. The demand for change is incessant. Last year's production no longer satisfies. While in a sense change may betoken progress, and we welcome all that lessens labor and care and provides for human needs in a more sufficient way, yet these outward changes never satisfy. True newness can be found only in the spiritual realm, where pure vision is ever reaching upward to God. Spiritual inspiration presents to human consciousness that which is good. It gives fresh hope to the discouraged before whom failure and despair loom large; and to the sick, the chronic invalid, the weary, and the sin enslaved, this newness of vision presents fresh opportunities, and the assurance that "with God all things are possible."

To a discouraged invalid a friend once said, "Remember each night as you retire to wipe from the blackboard of your thought all mistakes and errors of the day, and start each morning with a fresh, clean sheet." In speaking of God's loving-kindness to men, the prophet said: "His compassions fail not. They are new every morning."

In her sermon "Christian Healing" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (p. 19), "Tireless Being, patient of man's procrastination, affords him fresh opportunities every hour." Many instances are recorded of the healing of those who, after passing the so-called meridian of human life, have been enabled to make a new start and have made good. "And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you." So reads the word of God through the prophet Isaiah. In fact, many who have experienced the blessings that come through a better understanding of God and His Christ, as revealed through Christian Science, feel that they are only now beginning to understand the "newness of life" to which Paul refers when he writes to the Romans, "that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life."

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