Article June 25, 1949 Issue

Experience mental. No interruption, no incompleteness, when Life is understood

MAN'S ETERNAL ONENESS WITH LIFE

DUANE T. YOULD

A Baccalaureate sermon delivered twenty years ago contained this statement: "Materialism has lost what scientific support it once appeared to have. Almost unanimously men of science are taking the opposite attitude. They are feeling that a system of things out of which mind arose must itself be mental at bottom; that the order of the universe suggests an Infinite Intelligence, its beauty an Infinite Artist, its invisible ministries an Infinite Friend."

What human beings commonly consider life to be, namely, mortal existence with its failures, disappointments, sickness, sin, and death, Christian Science teaches is but a counterfeit of the real, omniscient, omnipotent, and eternal Life, which is God. God is immortal Life, and man in His likeness is Life's eternal, harmonious expression, radiantly reflecting all the qualities belonging to his Father-Mother God, in whom, as St. Paul tells us, man lives, and moves, and has his being. Therefore God is the origin, source, and sustainer of man's deathless existence.

The belief that life begins at birth and ends at death has held mankind in bondage to fear, sin, and limitation since time began. Spiritual understanding, however, is convinced of man's eternal, indestructible nature as the image and likeness of God, perfect and eternal. This is clarified in a statement made by our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 189): "The Scriptures declare Life to be the infinite I AM,—not a dweller in matter. For man to know Life as it is, namely God, the eternal good, gives him not merely a sense of existence, but an accompanying consciousness of spiritual power that subordinates matter and destroys sin, disease, and death." Farther on in the same paragraph Mrs. Eddy writes, "This spiritual power, healing sin and sickness, was not confined to the first century; it extends to all time, inhabits eternity, and demonstrates Life without beginning or end."

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