Editorial November 28, 1964 Issue

"The ultimatum of life"

Helen Wood Bauman

Mary Baker Eddy says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," in an article entitled "Youth and Young Manhood" (p. 273): "The ultimatum of life here and hereafter is utterly apart from a material or personal sense of pleasure, pain, joy, sorrow, life, and death. The truth of life, or life in truth, is a scientific knowledge that is portentous; and is won only by the spiritual understanding of Life as God, good, ever-present good, and therefore life eternal."

In Christian Science "the ultimatum of life" for youth is the same as that for any age: spiritual perfection. Christ Jesus said (Matt. 5:48), "Be ye ... perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." To begin early in life to attain this final condition is a great advantage.

It takes spiritual intuition to recognize this real issue presented by the Science of Christ, but those young people who recognize that every activity of their lives can be dedicated to the ideal of spiritual perfection start out with a clearly defined purpose. They will not lose a single right human pleasure, but they will rise to the true idea of joy in Spirit. They will know where they are going, and they will not be diverted from a definite sense of direction. They will find that capabilities and possibilities of talent are released when they follow the direct line of spirituality.

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