Article March 16, 1968 Issue

A New World

AURIEL WYNDHAM ADAMS

At a recent school meeting for the parents of second graders there was much laughter at one youngster's tape-recorded statement, "If I had a million dollars, I'd buy a new world." By the looks and nods from the parents it was obvious that most of them concurred.

Indeed, there must be very few if any of us who would not like to see a new world—one free from wars, prejudice, lack, unhappiness, sin, disease, and death. Traditional theology declares that there is such a world, that it is spiritual and is to be experienced after death. On the other hand, most people who look at things from a non-theological viewpoint deny that there is any spiritual life to be attained. They seek to establish harmony right now in this present existence and to do this mainly by material methods.

Christian Science resolves this difference of opinion by asserting that life is indeed spiritual and is to be so understood here and now; that harmony is brought out in our present experience, not by material methods, but through obedience to spiritual law. Mrs. Eddy explains a relevant Biblical passage in this way: "'Now,' cried the apostle, 'is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation,' —meaning, not that now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now Is the time in which to experience that salvation in spirit and in life."^{Science and Health, p. 39;} This spiritual, harmonious world is for us a present possibility. This is the only real world, the world of God's creating.