OF all the fallacious concepts known to mortals, none seems more persistent than the belief in age and time. The world in general sums up human existence in the brief statement that men are born, grow old, and die, and accepts with more or less resignation what appears to be its inevitable destiny. Yet, notwithstanding its own ultimatum, humanity is continually seeking a panacea for all its ills.
History bears witness to unsuccessful attempts on the part of credulous explorers to locate a fabulous fountain of immortal youth. Of course their quest was in vain, for they sought a material instead of a spiritual transformation. The Scriptures tell us of the true fountain of life immortal, which is the one restorative, healing all infirmities, and in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes of this as follows (p. 190): "The Hebrew bard, swayed by mortal thoughts, thus swept his lyre with saddening strains on human existence:
As for man, his days are as grass:
As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;
And the place thereof shall know it no more.
