Article March 27, 1943 Issue

"Neither young nor old"

HARRIETTE MELDRIM

An insidious argument with which human beings are confronted is the suggestion that one is either too old or too young to be able to accomplish a desired objective. So subtle is this suggestion that the individual, if he is not alert, may accept the lie as his own thought and resign himself to its inevitability. Upon examination, however, the beliefs of age and youth are seen to be phases of the fundamental error of belief that life is material, that it begins with birth and must end in death.

Surely no Christian Scientist who is familiar with the writings of his Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, can believe that the life of man, whom God made, can be material, or that it is bounded by the limitations of birth and death. If he continues in this line of reasoning, the worker will see that in reality he is not bound by the beliefs of youth and age. Man, created by Mind, exists at the standpoint of perfection. He has always existed and must ever continue to exist as Mind's idea. The manifestation of Mind, God, does not need to grow and develop. God's man is complete and fully expressed. Furthermore, the man of God's creating cannot decline or deteriorate; he is, and will always remain, the reflection of Spirit, Mind.

That age is a belief of mortal mind and not a spiritual fact is clearly indicated by Mrs. Eddy where she says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 244): "Man in Science is neither young nor old. He has neither birth nor death." It is our responsibility to prove this statement in our daily experience if we would reap the benefits of eternal life. Manifestly, we cannot claim our heritage of life everlasting so long as we cling to the belief in life as material. Eternity is endless; it knows not infancy, youth, maturity, or senility.

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