Article May 14, 1979 Issue

Dealing scientifically with age

ALICE W. COOKE

In some ways progress has been made in public attitudes toward the elderly. One indication of this is that the mandatory retirement age is retreating. Also, the skills of older people are being more widely recognized.

Christian Science explains why age has no actual connection with man and why one need not, therefore, submit to the limitations associated with advancing years. It reveals man as spiritual and immortal, inseparable from God, who is Life itself. It explains the mental nature of the "aging process" and shows how to deal with this imposition through prayer.

The mortal concept of life—that man is born into matter, progresses through various physical stages to adulthood, enjoys a few years of vigorous, productive living, and then goes physically and mentally downhill—is refuted by Science. In reality, there are no stages of physicality, no declining years, because there is no material birth. Man is perpetually the perfect likeness of God, and that likeness is spiritual. Mrs. Eddy states in Science and Health, "Never born and never dying, it were impossible for man, under the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his high estate." Science and Health, p. 258;

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