Article May 6, 1950 Issue

THE END OF THE WORLD

MARY VAN METER

Children sometimes spend fearful nights because a well-intentioned relative has described to them his version of the end of the world. The current education concerning potential atomic destruction often produces similar results. Let us call the child humanity, the relative all the well-intentioned sources of information about atomic destruction, and the resulting fearful nightmare what it truly is—the mesmeric product of so-called mortal mind.

Part of mortal mind's suppositional procedure is to threaten total destruction. That threat has been on record for a long time, and atomic destruction is just the latest version of the same old lie. The fear of extinction is behind most fears, and it is only when we see the truth of man's immortality, revealed in Christian Science, that this fear is dissipated. As one is introduced to the truths of God and man through the study of Jesus' works and teachings, interpreted by Mary Baker Eddy's revelation, he experiences a liberation from fear that is beyond the power of description.

Basic to true existence is the fact which Mrs. Eddy so concisely states in "the scientific statement of being" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468): "Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal." As one learns to distinguish between the real and the unreal—the Godlike, or spiritual, and the ungodlike, or material—this unreal, ungodlike, temporal belief called matter loses its attraction, importance, and finally its claim to existence. This process is what Christian Science recognizes as the end of the world. What a wonderful contrast it is to the material concept! Within the ever-unfolding spiritual understanding of true existence is no cataclysm, no fear, no terror, no remorse, no nostalgic sadness. All there is or ever can be to the end of the world is joy to see the lying suppositions of mortal mind disappear, giving place to the conscious satisfaction of man's true, harmonious, unencumbered spiritual existence.

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