Article January 23, 1926 Issue

Now

E. VIOLET J. DICKSEE

There is a little word which in the light of Christian Science is an exceedingly important one—the word "now." Paul points out that there is only one time acceptable to acquaint ourselves with the truth, and that is now. He says, "Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation."

On page 593 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy defines the word "salvation" thus: "Life, Truth, and Love understood and demonstrated as supreme over all; sin, sickness, and death destroyed." Through the understanding of Christian Science we are helped more and more to realize what this salvation means; to grasp in ever increasing realization the omnipresence of God—the truth that there never has been a time or place where God was not all-presence, and that there never will be.

It is to mortal, erring sense only that the "buts" and "ifs" and "whens" belong, because man is perfect now. To some this may at first sound like a startling statement, but not when they come to think it over. If the evil, the disease, the sorrow, or whatever discord we are at the moment seemingly laboring under were real, would it not mean that at that moment God, good, could not be omnipresent? Two opposite conditions cannot both be true at the same time and in the same place. If we, then, take the reassuring passages of the Bible,—and there are many of them,—we can, as stated in Malachi, prove Him now, and the windows of heaven, the clear perception of harmony, will be opened to us with the blessed result promised. God made everything that was made, and He pronounced it good. Nothing, therefore, can be added to or taken from God's handiwork; it is established now and forever. There never was any discordant condition of any kind that ever existed in reality for one single moment. Error—sin, sickness, death—has no "now"; and if it has no "now," how can it have a beginning, a past, or a future?

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