Editorial June 20, 1903 Issue

Truth Brooks No Delay

The saying of the old German poet that "The mills of God grind slowly," is often repeated, and this thought has no doubt helped some of us, now and then, to practise a kind of enforced patience which accepts a situation we have seemed too stupid or too ignorant to handle; nevertheless, it is competent to convey, and is constantly encouraging a subtle and pronounced error.

God has no occasion to bide His time that He may the more coolly and calculatingly o'erwhelm His enemies; He administers no slow vengeance upon any body or any thing, and he would not encourage us to grit our teeth and endure injustice and iniquity with the assurance that ultimately He will, in His own time, annihilate the evil-doer.

We realize in Christian Science that all these concepts, which have so long held sway in human thought, are far afield, unhelpful, and unworthy. Every manifestation of God—the forces on which we tread (Science and Health, p. 124) and which fashion the fabrics of a spiritual universe that encompasses us with its wonders and its beauty, —all these are the swift messengers of an intelligence which knows no resistance to its unfoldment, and which from all eternity has but spoken and it was done. Every condition in God's kingdom is met upon the instant of its appearance, and it is in the fact that the invariability of divine law inheres. As speeds the light to the banishment of every pretence of the dark, so springs to its instant consummation every least idea of Him with whom we have to do.

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