Article July 31, 1937 Issue

Our Present Heritage of Life

L. IVIMY GWALTER

Who has not awakened in the stillness of an early summer dawn and presently heard one tiny bird voice begin a paean of praise, then another and another, until the whole atmosphere was ringing with a song of joy, as gradually the darkness lifted and the day fully dawned? Christian Science, like a spiritual dawn, is dispelling the night of mortality with the revelation that Life is Spirit, ever present and omnipotent. The world as yet but dimly perceives this spiritual light. Well may Christian Scientists ask themselves, Are we awake? Do we grasp the import of this revelation? Are we fulfilling its demands? Are we singing our paean of praise? Or are we still slumbering in the mortal dream, yielding to weariness, age, discouragement? The waking of the birds is spontaneous, joyous, unlabored. So should our spiritual waking be.

Centuries ago Christ Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." In splendid confirmation of this promise, Mary Baker Eddy has written in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 42): "The universal belief in death is of no advantage. It cannot make Life or Truth apparent." And she adds, "Death will be found at length to be a mortal dream, which comes in darkness and disappears with the light."

The Christian Scientist is actively engaged in proving this statement. He knows that there is only one Life—eternal Life—and that now he is reflecting, experiencing, and demonstrating this one Life. He knows that Life, not death, lies before him—Life in its full glory, permanence, health, vitality. Girded with this spiritual consciousness he has courage to fight the claims of mortality. He is not mesmerized into regarding death as inevitable, as a friend, a means of advancement, or a means of relief. He fights the good fight with all his might, not with a mental reservation that he can prove Christian Science just so far, and then give up. Slowly but surely the age-old belief that death is the steppingstone to Life is yielding before the revelation and demonstration of Christian Science.

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