Article September 12, 1953 Issue

LOOK UP; MAN'S LIFE IS ETERNAL

DOROTHY R. HARRINGTON

Christian Scientists are learning to recognize the thoughts which God forever imparts to man. These thoughts break the mesmeric dream of the material senses, which falsely claim that man is fallen, sorrowful, sick, or sinful, for Christian Science brings out the truth that, by reflection, beauty, goodness, and love are inherent in man. When mankind accepts this truth, thought is activated by right desire, or prayer, to eradicate erroneous and material thinking and to overcome self-pity, self-righteousness, deceitfulness, arrogance, pride of position, intolerance, hatred, and so on. In proportion as this is done, health, affluence, harmonious activity, joy, and ever-broadening view of the real man and the spiritual universe are experienced.

The Psalmist sang (Ps. 23:4), "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me." In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy defines "valley" in part as "depression; meekness; darkness" (p. 596). The darkness of material thinking, then, is the valley from which mortals must be roused.

The story of Cain and Abel related in the fourth chapter of Genesis unfolded to one Christian Scientist as illustrative of mortals who toil in the valley of human thinking in contradistinction to the understanding of man as God's idea, pure and eternal. Cain's gift was refused because of its materiality, which is not acceptable to God. Although bearing the resemblance of fruitage, his gift was not free from sin, as evidenced by his jealousy and his hatred, which caused him to slay his brother.

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