Article July 22, 1967 Issue

Gaining Dominion over Age

CAROLYN B. SWAN

The divine method of gaining dominion over age is touched upon by Zophar when he says to Job: "If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him; if iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.... And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning."^{job 11:13, 14, 17;}

Dominion over age is attainable now through understanding the truth of man and living in accordance with that truth. Mrs. Eddy writes; "The measurement of life by solar years robs youth and gives ugliness to age. The radiant sun of virtue and truth coexists with being. Manhood is its eternal noon, undimmed by a declining sun."^{Science and Health, p. 246;}

The meridian of perfect manhood dawns upon us as we cultivate and cherish qualities that come from God, such as beauty, purity, humility, spirituality, love, and obedience. We should never supinely acquiesce in the false belief that the noontide of perfect manhood, which neither waxes nor wanes, is eclipsed for a time by the inanity of infancy, the timidity and turbulence of adolescence, the often unearned and therefore untenable dominance of a so-called prime of life, and the incapacitating changes of senescence. We are never too old or too young to gain dominion over age. Mrs. Eddy unequivocally states, "Man is God's reflection, needing no cultivation, but ever beautiful and complete."^{p. 527;}

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