Editorial July 24, 1943 Issue

Manhood's "eternal noon"

John Randall Dunn

Truly this is the day when mankind must reckon with youth and its problems as never before in history.

Now the thought of the world concerning youth is not always kindly and constructive. The unlovely adjective "callow" is frequently associated with so-called adolescence and bespeaks the limitations which that robber called time would impose. Robert Louis Stevenson, in a brilliant paragraph, thus sums up from the material standpoint the problem of the young man and the young woman: "Youth is wholly experimental. The essence and the charm of that unquiet and delightful epoch is ignorance of self as well as ignorance of life." But, says the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science. Mary Baker Eddy, in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 246), "The measurement of life by solar years robs youth and gives ugliness to age." And she adds: "The radiant sun of virtue and truth coexists with being. Manhood is its eternal noon, undimmed by a declining sun."

In Christian Science, therefore, one of the fundamental teachings is that the real man is not a helpless babe, an irresponsible youth, nor a mortal bowed with decrepitude, but exists at the standpoint of manhood's "eternal noon." As the expression of infinite good and intelligence, he is, in the exalted language of Hebrews, "without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God."

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