Editorial April 7, 1951 Issue

ABUNDANT AND CONTINUOUS LIFE

Richard J. Davis

Faced with the query, "How do you know that you are alive?" what would you answer? You would no doubt say: "Why, I know that I am alive because I am conscious. I exist; I know that I exist. It is through consciousness that I arrive at my perception of being. I am conscious of living; I am positively aware of being. I think; therefore I am." Then does it not follow that basically one's awareness of Life is spiritual and mental; in other words, that it is God, or Mind, that gives us our perception and consciousness of Life? There can be no other answer or explanation. In her book "Unity of Good" Mary Baker Eddy, the revelator of Christian Science, writes (p. 40); "Life is God, and God is good. Hence Life abides in man, if man abides in good, if he lives in God, who holds Life by a spiritual and not by a material sense of being."

Life as understood in Christian Science, then, is not something that is here today and gone tomorrow, something from which you and I can be separated. Life is infinite and all-inclusive Mind, God, and if you and I have no Life but God, does it not follow that in reality God is our very Life and being? Man, in the actuality of Truth, is the conscious awareness of Life that has no beginning and no end.

Mortal, material sense testimony would have us believe that we can be separated from Life. Naturally, a distant God might imply a distant, separated source of Life; but Christian Science declares that God in His infinite omnipresence constitutes and implies a very present, unending Life, an eternal continuity of being. So, in the same way that we learn in Christian Science to claim our inseparability from Mind, we perceive that we can and indeed must positively assert our oneness, or unity, with the infinity of Life.

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