Editorial May 3, 1941 Issue

Man's "eternal noon"

Alfred Pittman

Christian Science clearly teaches its students not to give more weight to one falsity than to another. They have, in the allness of God, a sure basis for differentiating between the false and the true, the unreal and the real. Whatever expresses God, perfect Mind, Spirit, Life, Truth, Love, is real. All that is unlike this all-inclusive divine Principle is unreal, no matter how much a part of normal human experience it has seemed; and the Scientist knows that he is unfailingly blessed by denying its claims to reality.

Now it is obvious that the impairment commonly expected by human beings with advancing years is unlike God. Christian Scientists, through their understanding of the powerlessness of matter, see that there is no physical reason for such a condition. They see that it is wholly a result of false belief, and that it can therefore be overcome, and also prevented, by the clear consciousness of reality. They rejoice in the measure of such demonstration that has already occurred through Christian Science for a multitude of people. They regard these happy results, however, not as wonderful or strange, but as spiritually natural; and they know that through sufficiently clear realization of the facts in any instance, the false claim of senility, or of the threat of it, can be obliterated in favor of the glorious evidence of man as God's likeness.

"Life is eternal," Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 246). "We should find this out, and begin the demonstration thereof." And she adds, "Let us then shape our views of existence into loveliness, freshness, and continuity, rather than into age and blight." The book of Isaiah points to the same need and opportunity when it stirringly declares, "They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint."

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