Editorial January 1, 1972 Issue

Don't Let the Calendar Get You

Alan A. Aylwin

In reality there is never a moment when the real man is aged, lonely, or useless, for he is the complete, changeless expression of God. God is tireless, joyous, ever-active Life.

This may seem pretty far-out when we look around us and see on every hand evidence of age, decay, and age-related incapacity and unhappiness. But Christian Science insists that this evidence is suspect, indeed totally false. It teaches that persons and things, as the physical senses perceive them, are not God-created but are counterfeits of the real man and the real universe. They are phases of a hypnotic dream that seems to make all things appear material and subject to disease, decay, and final annihilation.

In other words, people of senior years need not succumb to the limitations that popular belief would fasten upon them. The Bible states forthrightly, "Thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning."Job 11:17;

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