Article April 8, 1939 Issue

Man the Eternal Expression of Life

JOHN GERARD LORD

As the student of Christian Science grows in understanding and demonstration of the truth, he realizes more and more its beauty and grandeur, its inestimable value in his present experience. He realizes also to an ever-increasing extent the magnitude and wonder of Mrs. Eddy's life and work, and he can never cease to be humbly grateful for all that our beloved Leader has done for mankind in her discovery and founding of Christian Science, with all the unselfed, strenuous labor which this involved.

One of the great blessings that has come to us through the revelation of Christian Science is the knowledge and certainty that Life, being God, is eternal, and that man is ever the full, complete, and perfect expression of eternal Life. What joy and peace are ours when we glimpse, even though faintly, the glory and wonder of this great verity! And how truly are the words of Isaiah fulfilled, "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined," when the blessed truth of man's coexistence with Life dawns upon our consciousness! The great fear that ever besets mortal existence, the fear of death, can be, must eventually be, completely destroyed through the consciousness of ever-present Life.

In divine Love's perfect universe death is nonexistent, and it is our joyous privilege to understand and to demonstrate this glorious truth. Mrs. Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 246):"Life is eternal. We should find this out, and begin the demonstration thereof." Since this demonstration must take place in our consciousness, we should first learn to control our thinking and see that no suggestion of limitation or death enters there. But it is not enough that we merely shut out these suggestions. We must ever keep in thought the great verities of eternal Life and man's eternal perfection as the child of God, changeless and deathless.

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