The great poet Shakespeare in one of his plays vividly portrays human existence as consisting of seven ages starting with infancy and ending with old age and helplessness. How different are these concepts of life from those depicted by Christian Science!
This Science reveals man as spiritual and perfect, as coexistent and coeternal with his creator. It presents him as endowed with all of the resources of God, Soul, and as having dominion over all things. Mary Baker Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 258): "Mortals have a very imperfect sense of the spiritual man and of the infinite range of his thought. To him belongs eternal Life. Never born and never dying, it were impossible for man, under the government of God in eternal Science, to fall from his high estate."
It is important to maintain this spiritual concept of man when one is considering the problems of youth or the period of adolescence. The general belief of mankind that this period of human existence is fraught with lawlessness, uncertainty, false appetites and desires, needs to be rejected and replaced with this true concept.
