Article November 9, 1940 Issue

Man Has a Divine Origin

ELLEN CHORLTON

TO change his mental outlook from a concept of life as mortal and material to the true concept of Life as immortal is the task that the Christian Scientist has set out to accomplish. Educated in the belief in existence as material, with all the various theories attached thereto, almost everyone has accepted in some measure these false theories and allowed them to rule his thought and to govern his life.

One who is now a student of Christian Science had accepted the theory that one must of necessity grow old and lapse into a state of uselessness. The mental picture in which she indulged was indeed a depressing one. Thanks, however, to the teaching of Christian Science, the picture was replaced by a much happier outlook on life.

Shortly after purchasing "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, she read the following sentence (p. 244): "Man in Science is neither young nor old." "Is this true?" she asked herself. Again, she read (p. 305): "Because man is the reflection of his Maker, he is not subject to birth, growth, maturity, decay. These mortal dreams are of human origin, not divine."

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