Article July 23, 1955 Issue

LEARNING IMMORTALITY AND LIFE

MARY H. OLIVER

It was revealed to Mary Baker Eddy that immortality and life are to be learned, for in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she writes (pp. 98, 95), "The way through which immortality and life are learned is not ecclesiastical but Christian, not human but divine, not physical but metaphysical, not material but scientifically spiritual." And she goes on to quote Paul, who wrote (Phil. 2:12, 13): "Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure."

When prayerfully considered, these words will be of great comfort to the student of Christian Science, for he will see that he is learning the true and happy way to live and learning also that God, divine Love, is working with him and teaching him.

At one time or another a student of Christian Science may be tempted to feel discouraged that his progress toward spiritual perfection, which is the goal Christian Scientists are striving to attain, appears to be slower than the progress of some of his friends. Yet each one who is learning God aright is demonstrating progress. Each individual should be concerned chiefly with proving his own identity as God's child, created in His likeness. Each individual wins his own freedom and proves his dominion over material sense evidence through his own spiritual-mindedness.

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