Article June 12, 1943 Issue

Maintaining a Fresh Course

WALTER BRENT

Freshness is generally desired by all men. Many seek to attain or preserve it through material means and meet with failure, because matter holds in itself the elements of decay and dissolution. The remedy must therefore be found in the enduring and eternal properties of the divine Mind.

On page 246 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Man, governed by immortal Mind, is always beautiful and grand. Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty, and holiness;" and she adds, "Let us then shape our views of existence into loveliness, freshness, and continuity, rather than into age and blight." As we heed Mrs. Eddy's admonition and through prayerful study of the Bible and her writings our consciousness becomes imbued with the spiritual "views of existence," it will be transformed—freed from its material beliefs—and thus will progressively approach its innate perfection. In Science, man is ever at this stand-point of perfection and completeness, kept there by Love's tender solicitude.

Our human experiences all too often belie the foregoing facts about the spiritual status of man. The material sense of life continuously argues on the side of limitation, disease, "age and blight," appearing in the name of necessity, law, inevitability.

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