Article July 31, 1971 Issue

An Interview: on not growing old

with contributions from J. Burwell Harrison

J. Burwell Harrison, a lifelong Christian Scientist, is the president and resident trustee of Tenacre Foundation at Princeton, New Jersey, a care facility accredited by the Department of Care of The Mother Church. Tenacre ministers to Christian Scientists, offering a wide range of care and nursing services including the care of the elderly and the training of Christian Science practical and graduate nurses.

What's at the core of overcoming age?

Well, it's dealing with this whole belief of life in matter. I had a very interesting Sunday School class some weeks ago. When the Lesson-Sermon had the part by Mrs. Eddy about "Chronological data are no part of the vast forever,"^{Science and Health, p. 246;} I asked these kids—fourteen and fifteen years old—"Is there anything that you can't do now that you could do when you were a baby?"