THIS season when the Christian world is about to turn its calendar forward and the cry "Happy New Year" is on the lips of many is for some a season of retrospection, for others one of searching introspection, and for still others one of resolution to turn over a new leaf and make a fresh start.
To all these the words of Mary Baker Eddy under the caption "Immortal memory" in her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," are fraught with promise. There she writes (p. 407): "If delusion says, 'I have lost my memory,' contradict it. No faculty of Mind is lost. In Science, all being is eternal, spiritual, perfect, harmonious in every action. Let the perfect model be present in your thoughts instead of its demoralized opposite. This spiritualization of thought lets in the light, and brings the divine Mind, Life not death, into your consciousness."
In what striking contrast is this statement to the commonly accepted theory concerning memory! Humanly speaking, it is generally believed that the older one is the longer one's memory, and the longer the memory the more one is usually tempted to look back at the good which was and seemingly is no more. Again, memory is sometimes supposed to be lost through illness or age, and often memory is haunted with sorrow, with self-condemnation, bitterness, rebellion, and remorse.
