Editorial December 29, 1945 Issue

All Things New

Margaret Morrison

In the twenty-first chapter of the revelation of St. John we read these inspiring words: "And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful." Then follows a description of the new heaven and the new earth, with old things passed away, the old fears, superstitions, false concepts of matter, pain, sorrow, and death no longer hiding the glory the majesty and harmony of reality.

Who or what is this "I" that promises newness of life? It can be nothing less than divine Mind, the infinite source of life, even life itself. How this transformation is wrought was illustrated by Christ Jesus, and is made scientifically and perfectly plain in Christian Science. Here is shown how each individual may find himself anew, with a new standpoint, new strength, new aspirations, new life. One page 201 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "Truth makes a new creature, in whom old things pass away and 'all things are become new.' Passions, selfishness, false appetites, hatred, fear, all sensuality, yield to spirituality, and the superabundance of being is on the side of God good."

As one thus puts off the old things of the flesh and learns to know the truth about Mind and man's individual relationship to Mind, he finds himself with an entirely new basis of thought and living. A limited, mortal selfhood is no longer the center and circumference of being, the measuring rod of life, but he finds himself and his universe in the measureless, the infinite goodness of God. This newness of life comes into his present experience in the exact proportion that he allows the new to outshine the old, that he exchange the suppositional life of the senses for the substantial reality of Spirit, in the proportion that he is transformed by the renewing Mind.

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