Editorial February 22, 1964 Issue

Lengthening Our Days

Ralph E. Wagers

"The understanding that Life is God, Spirit, lengthens our days by strengthening our trust in the deathless reality of Life, its almightiness and immortality" (Science and Health by Mrs. Eddy, p. 487). Here our Leader combines absolute statements referring to Life with the application of this truth to the human sense of existence. Whenever absolute truth is applied to a human situation, an improvement is brought about: for example, in the quotation above, our days are lengthened by our strengthened trust in Life.

But what may we expect added years to bring us? Not decrepitude, loneliness, uselessness If so, these added years would be valueless. When they are rightly understood as a time in which to demonstrate a better sense of Life as God, these added years will bring either the opportunity for continuous service or the accomplishment of a project that had to be brushed aside in earlier years. Such a prospect is worth planning for and looking forward to.

The lengthening of our days should not be devoid of enthusiasm and expectancy. The qualities of Soul, Spirit, are forever expressed in man, and there is no point at which the opportunity to manifest these qualities is not present. In Revelation (21: 5) it is recorded, "He that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new." As one refuses to accept added years as anything but the threshold to an enriched experience, an entirely new period of activity must necessarily open up.

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