Article November 11, 1944 Issue

No Material Now

[Of Special Interest to Youth]

RUTH GRUHLKE BOWIE

Young people graduating from schools and colleges to take their places in a world where fear, confusion, and hatred hold sway, and where war is fiercely raging on many fronts, may be tempted to accept the mesmerism of worldly beliefs and question despairingly: Why were we born at this time? Why must we suffer for the ignorance and sin of an older generation? What can we do to right a world that is bent on destroying itself?

The alert Christian Scientist is not troubled by such questions. He knows why he is here. Certainly he is not here to suffer for the ignorance or sin of anyone— not even for a false concept of man claiming to be himself. He is here, in the eternal now, a beloved son of God. In this understanding he can rejoice, reversing all that suggests unhappiness, separation, loss, bewilderment, or readjustment. He is not in a world bent on destroying itself. He is in the gloriously satisfying, substantial world of Spirit, a world where Love is supreme, where progress is infinite; and he can prove this in some measure right now.

A wise Christian Scientist refuses to accept an impractical material world or a mortal concept of man. He does not accept a material history of himself. Instead, he claims his spiritual history, and the fact that he is born of God, doing the will of God eternally, expressing dominion continually. Can he then be overcome by material happenings? No! Each one of us is here to prove his spiritual dominion. We all have a sacred duty to perform, even the same sacred duty Jesus announced to Pilate when he said. "To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth."

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