Editorial November 27, 1954 Issue

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AS OLD AS GOD

Harold Molter

The truths of Christian Science are not new. They present the eternal laws of God whereby He rules the universe. These laws can never be ignored, altered, or overruled. Disobedience to them brings inevitable suffering. Obedience results in unlimited blessings.

The story of Adam and Eve, in the Bible, is typical of the problems and difficulties which come to men when they fail to acknowledge and obey divine law as revealed in Christian Science. In this allegory Adam and Eve were told that they should not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which represents the beliefs of life and intelligence in matter. But they disobeyed the divine command, and therefore excluded themselves from the unlimited good immediately available to them.

Every individual on earth has accepted in some degree the belief of life in matter, the belief of man as a mixture of good and evil—of Spirit and matter. And everyone is confronted with the necessity of choosing between the spiritual way of living, as revealed in Christian Science, and the uncertainties of so-called mortal existence. All must sooner or later abandon the belief of life in matter and accept the spiritual way of living. This fact is summarized in the Biblical command (Isa. 2:22), "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?" Why not begin today?

Send a comment to the editors

NEXT IN THIS ISSUE

Editorial

UNDERSTANDING AND BELIEF