Article December 16, 1916 Issue

"Now is the accepted time"

TIMOTHY L. ROBERTS

A large proportion of the discontent, worry, in a word unhappiness in the world, comes from fearing the future or regretting the past; therefore it comes from that which is provably unreal. How so? Well, the future has not yet come, else it would not be future. How can it be said that a thing which never came into existence has in the final sense any reality? This being admitted, does the future really exist?

Now, let us assume that some one may suddenly seem to manifest certain inharmonious symptoms. Simultaneously mortal mind—always officious, insinuating, accusing, itself the sole cause of these symptoms—begins to set up "in the dark recesses of mortal thought" (Science and Health, p. 102) its scarecrow, an image in this same mortal thought composed of the advanced stages of the particular disease that mortal mind has decided to express on the body. Let us note that these advanced stages, the things which the subject fears, are all in the future, which, as has been shown, does not in reality exist. Immediately fear of the approach of these advanced stages proceeds to install itself in the mortal consciousness; and as "fear hath torment," the victim of these false processes is already discontented and worried, in a word unhappy. Job's saying, "The thing which I greatly feared is come upon me," is therefore applicable in this case, for fear flings wide open the doors of consciousness to any suggestion that is ready to enter. The victim, knowing not how to ward off aggressive mental suggestion, is apt to submit to the inevitable and proceed to manifest the disease.

But "thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ," and thanks to the teachings of our beloved Leader, Mrs. Eddy, Christian Science has come to this age to restore the Christ-healing to human consciousness. God is Love, and Christian Science has come to reassert this age-old truth and demonstrate its fulness of meaning now. As the Bible teaches that God is All-in-all, the specter, fear, should have no place in human consciousness. Christian Science is showing this to be a fact which is now operative and capable of present proof. There need therefore be no fear of the future, for one infinite Mind governs that which to human sense is past, present, and future.

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