Article December 2, 1944 Issue

Good Reveals Itself as Perpetual

EDITH BAILEY

The story is told that long ago, in a far-away country, an emperor called together the wise men of his kingdom and assigned to them the task of formulating an axiom that would fit all conditions, at all times, in every place. These philosophers took up their task, and after much research and work the axioms were submitted. But the one accepted by the emperor was offered by his daughter: "This, too, will pass."'

This axiom, viewed in the light of Christian Science, and applied to all things material, contains more truth than those philosophers probably dreamed of. For Science teaches that God made all, as the Scriptures declare, and that His creation is changeless and eternal. It is metaphysical logic that whatever appears to pass away never had real existence. Its seeming existence is but the false claim of the carnal mind that life, substance, and intelligence, mutable and mortal, exist in matter.

The Master said, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away." The "words" are Truth's declaration of the continuity of good. Life is immortal, Mind is changeless, substance is enduring Love. Mary Baker Eddy has positively stated in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 3.1.5): "Reality is spiritual, harmonious, immutable, immortal, divine, eternal. Nothing unspiritual can be real, harmonious, or eternal. Sin sickness, and mortality are the suppositional antipodes of Spirit, and must be contradictions of reality."

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