Article November 8, 1947 Issue

WOULD YOU KNOW MORE ABUNDANT LIFE?

WILLIAM ALEXANDER GIBSON MARTIN

What exactly is the experience known to mankind as life? Does it begin with human birth, continue through childhood and the disappointments of adult experience, finally develop into decrepitude and end in death? If that is an accurate description of life, one might well agree with the pessimist who exclaimed each morning as he awoke and contemplated the responsibilities confronting him, "Life is simply not worth living."

But how different was the master Christian's attitude! Students of the Bible have long cherished his words (John 10:10), "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly." The full significance of these words, however, was not revealed to mankind until Mary Baker Eddy published the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in which this devoted and inspired student of the Scriptures states on page 468, "Life is divine Principle, Mind, Soul, Spirit." Let us ponder this profound statement step by step.

"Life is divine Principle." Principle is the basis of all law, unchanging and unchangeable. Man-made laws become obsolete and are often repealed or amended. Indeed, mankind is continually drafting new laws as material conditions alter from one year to another. But spiritual law, recorded first by Moses in terms as easily understood by mankind today as by the Israelites of old, is the emanation of divine Principle, God, and so is unchanging. Contrast the expression of law known generally as the Ten Commandments with mere human law—Roman law, English law, French law, American law, all requiring volume after volume to record their statement, exceptions, and amendments. If all mankind agreed to adhere strictly to the Ten Commandments, man-made so-called law would become obsolete.

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