Editorial March 18, 1967 Issue

The Continuity of Being

William Milford Correll

The fact that Life is God and therefore endless establishes the continuity of being in relation to His creation. When understood, this fact enters into the details of our daily life. It has much to do with our demonstration of health and harmony, our purpose in life, and our continuous activity.

When one learns in Christian Science that Life is eternal, he does not plan to stop living. When he learns that Love is unchanging and endless, he does not expect the blessings of Love to diminish with the passage of time. In terse language Mrs. Eddy says: "Life is eternal. We should find this out, and begin the demonstration thereof. Life and goodness are immortal. Let us then shape our views of existence into loveliness, freshness, and continuity, rather than into age and blight."^{Science and Health, p. 246;}

The opposite view of life as material and mortal stems from a misconception of life and according to the Bible "is of few days, and full of trouble."^{Job 14:1;} Jesus demonstrated the higher sense of life when he restored the sick and raised the dead. He was demonstrating the eternal nature of Christ, the ideal man. In referring to his true selfhood as the Christ, he indicated that he had always existed. In like manner he revealed the continuity of his being when he said, "Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world."^{Matt. 28:20;}