Article May 21, 1955 Issue

NOT "SUBJECT TO CHANGE"

RUTH DOERR BRIERLEY

Human life can be summed up in the familiar phrase often found on transportation schedules and printed programs: "Subject to change without notice." The lot of mankind seems to be good today and evil tomorrow; plenty today and want tomorrow; peace today, war tomorrow; life today, death tomorrow, and so on. Therefore mortals frantically attempt to establish for themselves security, a sense of peace and happiness, some bulwark against the curse of change. They search in many directions to obtain this insurance for the future, but are never completely satisfied.

When they inquire of religion, they learn that scholastic theology is based upon the changeableness of God. When they look to medicine for health assurance, they find that underlying medical theories is always the uncertainty of cure. The quest for unchanging security seems hopeless, and yet the answer, to be found in the Bible, has always been available (Job 22:21): "Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee."

What a glorious promise! "Good shall come unto thee." No mention is made of disease and death, of discord and disaster, of war and lack. Good—and alone—comes to those who acquaint themselves intelligently with God. Thousands the world over have gained just such a demonstrable acquaintance through the earnest study of the Bible and the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy. Particularly enlightening is her definition of God to be found on page 465: "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth, Love."

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