Article February 23, 1963 Issue

The Fulfillment of Good in Our Lives

[Of Special Interest to Young Men and Women]

DORIS JEAN CREER

In classical mythology there is a story about a man named Tantalus, who for his sins was condemned by the gods to perpetual hunger and thirst. Although he was placed in the middle of a lake, and the water was up to his chin and although the finest fruits hung before his eyes, both water and fruit always receded when in his yearning he tried to partake of them.

Have not many of us at some time felt akin to this mythical mortal when, to human sense, our own aspirations and desires have been cruelly thwarted by a power seemingly beyond our control? How fortunate, indeed, are those who have learned through Christian Science to see frustration and unfulfillment for what they really are—myths of mortality, which have no part in the life of man, the beloved child of God, immortal Mind!

Mrs. Eddy makes this point clear on page 531 of Science and Health. Here she writes, "The mythologic theory of material life at no point resembles the scientifically Christian record of man as created by Mind in the image and likeness of God and having dominion over all the earth." When we learn to reject the "mythologic theory of material life" as having no influence on us and claim our dominion as the reflection of God, no power on earth can prevent us from experiencing good.

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