Article March 21, 1970 Issue

Cycles: Fate, or Fiction?

WM. BOYD McCARTNEY

"Stop the world, I want to get off!" This cry, the title of a recent musical play, may express the yearning of much of mankind to escape the doom of the persistent cycles of human life. Business activity rises and falls in cycles of inflation and depression, of oversupply and undersupply, of labor strife and a fragile peace. Life itself seems to be a continuous cycle of happiness and sorrow, health and sickness, birth, growth, maturity, and death.

Is it really the fate of mankind to be forever subject to these depressing cycles? No! To believe so would be to condemn mankind to endless suffering, sorrow, and disease. Such a fate would offer mankind little hope of gaining real happiness or success.

Christian Science presents a completely opposite view. This Science calls the cycles of human existence illusion, nothing more than the fiction of belief in the reality of matter and mortality. Neither circumstance nor fate can keep humanity on such a fictitious merry-go-round. The Science of Christianity shows that the real destiny and nature of man are outlined in the first chapter of Genesis in the Bible. There the record says, "God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. . . . So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."^{Gen. 1:26, 27;} And the chapter ends with the statement, "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

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