Editorial May 31, 1969 Issue

We Can Begin Proving Our Ageless Being

Alan A. Aylwin

An article in a popular magazine asks, "How fast are you aging?" It then proceeds to elaborate on the physical factors that doctors associate with the process of human aging, and it describes material ways and means for slowing down this destructive process, such as attention to diet, exercise, and control of stress.

But is there not a higher and more effective solution to this problem? Christian Science insists there is, and Bible history bears this out. For example, it is recorded that throughout his great mission Moses was strengthened and renewed by a close communion with God. His recognition of the divine power and presence was so vivid that in one instance we read, "The Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend." ^{Ex. 33:11;} The result was that when Moses passed on at one hundred and twenty years of age it was said that "his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated." ^{Deut. 34:7;}

Christian Science asserts that this freedom from senility is just as possible today because the aging process is not a God-created reality. It is one of the many false beliefs that has developed from ignorance of man's real spiritual identity reflecting the unchanging vitality and freshness of God, divine Life.

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