Article October 19, 1946 Issue

Man Is Ageless

ALICE F. FUNKEN

An employment manager in a large organization once said that he estimated a person's age, regardless of years, by the flexibility evident in his or her thinking. If one had what he termed "congealed opinions," he adjudged him old no matter what the record of years might be; and contrariwise, if one showed qualities of flexibility in thinking, he considered him young in spite of the record of years. The glimmer of truth in this line of thought should aid mortals to see that the common beliefs on the subject of old age are only superstitions.

Christian Science, which has revolutionized human thinking about so many subjects of interest to mankind, is teaching men to meet the suggestions attending the belief of old age with a prompt denial, based on some understanding of the fact that man's life is spiritual and is the outcome of Spirit, God. One of the first things a student of this Science learns is the fact that man is inseparable from God. Mortal opinion may have educated him to believe in a false concept of man, so that he has thought of himself as apart from God, as having been born into matter and as dying out of it; as experiencing immaturity, a temporary sense of vigor and accomplishment, and then debility and decay.

Through the study of Science, however, he learns that this false concept of man is a mistaken view arising from the Adam-dream, or myth of material creation, related in the second chapter of Genesis, and that this dream has no reality or power. He learns that since there is but one God, there is but one image and likeness of that God—perfect man. As he begins to claim for himself the perfection of God's man, in whom are unfolding throughout eternity the thoughts of Love and the qualities of God, he increasingly demonstrates in his own experience the truth of these verities. He learns to deny the testimony of the material senses that man is born, grows old, and dies, from the standpoint that man, as God's idea, is ageless. Age refers to time, and the perfect man is not subject to material measurements of time.

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