Article September 21, 1957 Issue

"THE EXPECTATION OF THE PEOPLE"

EDITH E. BROWN

When Peter was in chains and was being unjustly held in prison, human opinion said that it was impossible for him to escape. But he obeyed the angel that said (Acts 12:7, 8): "Arise up quickly. ... Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals." In response to the angel's command, "Follow me," Peter "went out, and followed him" out into the street.

Then the glorious significance of this event dawned upon Peter, and he declared, "Now I know of a surety, that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from all the expectation of the people of the Jews."

Mankind sometimes makes many prisons for itself. One of them is the acceptance of the inevitability of old age. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 550), "The continual contemplation of existence as material and corporeal—as beginning and ending, and with birth, decay, and dissolution as its component stages—hides the true and spiritual Life, and causes our standard to trail in the dust." The sense of life as beginning and ending is so insistent that Christian Scientists should make an earnest effort every day to demonstrate the true, spiritual life that knows no birth or death.

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