Editorial December 26, 1964 Issue

Looking Forward to a New Year

Carl J. Welz

The end of a year is a good time for taking stock. What have we gained during the past year and what have we lost? And what can we do next year to increase the gains and to prevent the losses?

To answer these questions scientifically, we need a standard by which we can gauge our progress. Christian Science gives us such a standard by revealing to us the true nature of man in God's image. This real man is never less than perfect. Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 470 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "God is the creator of man, and, the divine Principle of man remaining perfect, the divine idea or reflection, man, remains perfect. Man is the expression of God's being."

According to this standard, we gain if we move in the direction of realizing and demonstrating our true nature as the expression of divine Principle. We lose if we move away from this realization toward the belief that we are material beings living outside divine perfection. Mrs. Eddy says (ibid., p. 254), "Imperfect mortals grasp the ultimate of spiritual perfection slowly; but to begin aright and to continue the strife of demonstrating the great problem of being, is doing much."

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