Article April 25, 1959 Issue

"THE END OF THE WORLD"

LILLIAN V. BYRD

The expression, "the end of the world," is sometimes used with an apparently dire implication. The master Christian, Christ Jesus, spoke the words to his disciples in one of his most comforting talks with them before his ascension above material sense testimony, but with no hint of sorrow or disaster. The disciple Matthew records Jesus' loving reassurance to his followers thus (28:20): "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."

A teacher in a Christian Science Sunday School felt impelled to gain a better understanding of the phrase, "the end of the world," when one of her teen-age pupils brought the subject into the class discussion. A motion picture depicting the end of all life on the earth through sudden destruction was being currently advertised with sensational posters, and the pupils were curious about it. After listening to their comments for a few moments, the teacher remarked, "You know, Christian Science teaches us about the end of the world."

The pupils looked incredulous until the teacher added, "Oh, I don't mean that we are to believe that a mass of matter going up in smoke is the end of the world."

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