Editorial May 11, 1968 Issue

Never Let Down

Helen Wood Bauman

Where there is life, there is action, mental movement. And when we realize that real life begins with divine Life, or God, as Christian Science explains, we see how wrong it is to let down in our mental activity or to accept the worldwide belief that this must happen as people advance in years. Whether they live primitively in a jungle or sophisticatedly in a great city, the elders of society generally do not resist the mental inertia that suggests itself to them, because they do not know how to resist it. So they are taken in by the mortal belief of deterioration, used by it, defeated by it.

But defeat should not happen. Christian Science shows that no one need let down in useful activities and that there is a way to avoid doing it. Mentally and physically, action can continue to be vigorous and spontaneous. But this requires dedicated obedience to the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." Ex. 20:3;

To have no other gods than the one God is to have no other mind than the one Mind, which is Spirit, Love, Truth. God's man, who is His spiritual image, embodies the activities of Mind. He constantly reflects the intelligence, ability, and power of Mind; and his vitality never diminishes because its source is infinite, inexhaustible. This is the pattern of real life, and it is demonstrable through divine Science. Perhaps Christ Jesus had the proof of perpetual activity in mind when he said to his disciples, "He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal." John 4:36;

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