The Washington herald., 1916-12-10

all-power. all-presence. and reality of
divine Mind, Spirit, or God, and reject
ing the sense-suppositIon OF a man and
universe of imperfection. II he loves
God supremely he will not be found
wasting his time in paying allegiance to
false gods. He will lay all stress upon
the Importance of mental work, of watch
fulness and prayer. One has but to
recall how completely the Masters time
was occupied in loving service 10 his
fellow men. to quicken his own thought
to the need of greater mental activity
and conservation.
Jesus was the perfect example for all
man. one who improved every moment
Of his time by thinking only such though
of his time by thinking only such
thoughts as were pleasing to the Father.
He knew what it meant to dwell in the
secret place of the most High. which
means conscious communion with good.
with reality or eternity. II We would
follow in his footsteps, we too must
learn to improve our moments. before
they lengthen into hours. weeks, or
months. When good is uppermOst with
us and we are shutting out that which
is leeting and false. time passes rapidly.
When evil is magnified in thought. time
drags heavily. And Christian Science
shows us why this is 50. Time is a
temporal thought and is therefore no
part of enduring reality. 1t is no more
related to eternity than is mortality to
Immortality. All sense of time there
fore can and will be eventually overcome.
This is the great problem confront
ing every human being, the overcoming
Of all sense-limitations, Of all that con-
stitutes the belief or consciousness of
an existence which begins and ends.
Sooner or later must humanity awaken
to the fact that time is but a temporal
dream and that eternity is the enduring
and the real The real man is already
related to eternity. 1t but remains for
humanity to awaken from the mesmeric
dream of a temporal existence to COM
prehend the spiritual and eternal fact
of being, that man is the conscious
image and likeness of God: in other
words, the ever-present activity of right
ideas. II there is a human being who
could wish for man anything more ex-
allied than to be the conscious, active re-
Election or manifestation of infinite in
telligence, he is certainly hard to please.
The student of Christian Science can
say from the heart with the psalmist, l
shall be satisfied. when l awake, with
thy likeness.
There is with humanity a mistaken
belief that time will sooner or later solve
every human problem. Time never ac-
complished anything. unless mortal
thoughts, theories, beliefs, and opinions
are capable of benefiting the human race.
Waiting on time to work out any human
problem leaves the trammels and limita-
tions of sense-testimony undistributed
while waiting on divine Love is a con-
sclous recognition of the eternal facts OF
being which annals material law and
brings out the practical demonstration of
Truth in the healing of sickness and sin.
It is thinking above the mortal or hu-
man, above the belief in time and space,
which reaches the altitude of answer
prayer. Mortal thinking asks amiss,
without any scientific grasp of the
science of being. Its request remains
unanswered because 1t Is based upon the
suppositional realty of time rather than
upon any basic understanding of etern-
ity. The belief that eternal life begins
for a mortal only as a post-mortem leg
acy, will never usher any one into the
kingdom of reality. Eternity always has
been and always will be and the workers
in the Fathers vineyard must see the
necessity of analyzing the thought OF
time and proving its unreality as being
,niy material dream separate and apart
fron eternity, Drifting with the cur
rents of human thought, vsinly imagin-
ing that s1l will be well In a so-called
future existence, Is far removed from