In a world where the limitations of time and age are constantly presenting themselves to our thought, Mrs. Eddy's glorious statements about the indestructible life of man constitute a complete refutation of this entire network of mortal falsehoods.
"Life," writes Mary Baker Eddy in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 290), "is the everlasting I AM, the Being who was and is and shall be, whom nothing can erase." And in case we should have any doubt of our relationship to everlasting Life, she says on page 246, "Manhood is its eternal noon, undimmed by a declining sun."
Thousands of world-weary mortals must have rejoiced over the liberating truth of this statement. But, although to rejoice in the truth is requisite, rejoicing alone is not enough. In order to partake of and establish the truth about anything, we must uncover and cast out of our thinking the opposing error. There will be no measuring and limiting of our expectations of life and capacity when we know that both life and capacity are eternal. If we would demonstrate a state of being which "nothing can erase"—we must change our standpoint from that of limiting and measuring all things to one of infinite expectancy of eternal life and spiritual capacity. We know that Christian Science already has done much on behalf of the welfare and enlightenment of mankind. Mrs. Eddy says on pages 223 and 224 of Science and Health, "Longevity is increasing and the power of sin diminishing, for the world feels the alterative effect of truth through every pore."
