Youth and immortality

RICHARD B. FRANTZREB

Young people in high school and college are often seized with the false fear that the energy, well-being, and winsome qualities of youth are only a passing phase of life and that life itself is mortal. Mortal belief tells them that their vitality is inherent in their physical bodies, which can confer numerous fleeting pleasures they must enjoy while they can.

Feeling self-existent and self-sufficient, young people are tempted to sit back and enjoy their youth until the unthinkable day when, youth having been lost, they are forced to reexamine their concept of existence. How much better it would be to follow the advice of the book of Ecclesiastes, "Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them"!^{ Eccl. 12:1;}

Sooner or later everyone must come to the realization that true Life is God—self-sustained, spiritual, and immortal. The real life of man is not bounded by birth and death or characterized by youth and age, growth and decay, but is Life's reflection. In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes, "Man in Science is neither young nor old."^{ Science and Health p. 244;} On a nearby page she continues: "Man, governed by immortal Mind, is always beautiful and grand. Each succeeding year unfolds wisdom, beauty, and holiness. 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."^{ p. 246;}

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