Article December 27, 1941 Issue

The Agelessness of Man

MAI ADELAIDE JANDRON

GOD is ageless. Spiritual man, His idea, reflects Him. Traits that may be attractive in youth often appear ugly in old age. Thus mortals pass through states and stages of disintegration, weakness, weariness. The hope of youth is more difficult to maintain with increasing years. The necessity of recognizing the error to be overcome before one is overtaken by it is never more imperative than in facing the belief of old age. Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p.246), "Except for the error of measuring and limiting all that is good and beautiful, man would enjoy more than threescore years and ten and still maintain his vigor, freshness, and promise."

Childhood, young manhood and womanhood, middle age, and finally old age, are all beliefs of mortal mind, sometimes lovely, sometimes far from lovely. People at all stages of their growth must overcome the belief of age. Pride and vanity, twins of egotism, are foes, not friends, of mortal man. Fearing old age they serve but to hasten it. Universal beliefs of age label one and all. There is definite need to realize daily and hourly that individual man does not have to pass through the beliefs of age any more than he has to succumb to disease.

In the epistle to the Hebrews are the words, "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." We see in that expression the fortitude and grace of the real man. It must be clear that one does not have to hold to a belief of youth in order to overcome age. One does not turn from an ugly to a lovely belief for the spiritual answer. In this question, as in all questions, the Christian Scientist turns to God. God clothes man in His likeness. And ageless it is! The ugliness of age gives place through Science to the loveliness of agelessness. The outward beauty of our Leader was apparent to all who saw her. Years touched her but lightly. She knew God, and her understanding was demonstrated. It was often noted that joy and gladness permeated her home. It was a home where work reigned, yet hope sat gently, good triumphed, time and age took flight.

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