ANOTHER year of mortal life has come and gone. Once this year was called by mortals the future; then it became the present, and now it is called the past. It will continue to be thought of as an arena of time in which certain mortal events took place, as will the new year now just at hand. But to the eternal, spiritual sense of Life and man, years have no relatedness.
Christian Science denies that real life is ever measured by years. It denies that real life begins with a material process of germination in some one year, becomes identified and localized in a material body, which grows upward and outward in other years, and after a comparatively few more years succumbs to forces of deterioration and destruction.
While this sense of life is generally accepted by the human race as being reality, it cannot, with its heavy load of sorrow, injustice, war, and affliction, be logically attributed to a supremely good and intelligent creative cause. A challenging of its truthfulness is therefore justified. What cannot be attributed to absolute intelligence as its source cannot be the reality of being. Let any who illogically believe that the discordant material concept of life and man is God's work explain why deific wisdom did not do a better job and produce a man worthy to associate with his Maker.
