Editorial November 16, 1940 Issue

"Unto the perfect day"

Alfred Pittman

To those who have learned something of it, Christian Science presents an incomparable challenge—the challenge to annul mortality and prove the perfection of Life. This, of course, has been the challenge of Christianity from the outset; and through the work of Mary Baker Eddy, the full response to it has again been shown to be practical. On many occasions when death had been regarded as imminent and unavoidable under any other treatment, it has been prevented, and the patient restored to health, by Christian Science; and these instances, when they are understood, clearly foreshadow the complete overcoming of sin, disease, and death. Thus the high goal set by Christ Jesus when he declared, "If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death," has come to be regarded by many men and women in this age as attainable.

Are Christian Scientists doing all that they can to forward this glad achievement? Are they experiencing as much of it as they might, even now? How are they to improve upon what they are doing?

Many students of Christian Science, as they have considered such questions as these, have helped themselves greatly by improving on their methods of study. For study or research in Christian Science is different from any other scientific research in this respect: that its primary effect is obviously upon the Scientist himself. He gains more light, and immediately finds that he is not just the kind of man that he had seemed; that he is a better thinker, more competent and useful, freer of limitations. That is because his research is into the nature of God, the divine Principle of being, and of man as His expression. The student gains a truer sense of man, and thereby has evidence proportionally that he is the man of whom he is learning. Thus, for great and increasing numbers of people, research in this field has an interest unmatched by any other study or experience.

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