Editorial November 16, 1918 Issue

To-day

Annie M. Knott

To-day is a little word, but it is fraught with infinite meaning. In the third chapter of Zechariah we find this declaration of the Most High: "I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day." The chapter that follows tells of the spiritual illumination which made this possible, and in it we read these significant words: "Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts." This relates itself quite naturally with the opening words of the Christian Science textbook,—an inspired message which has brought hope to unnumbered thousands of hopeless mortals and pointed the way to health and harmony. The passage, which is to be found on page vii of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," reads, "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings." A wonderful message of divine Love, truly, to usher in each day of the year!

Throughout the Scriptures we have many warnings against the danger of neglecting to-day's possibilities. The ninety-fifth psalm in glowing words tells of the goodness and greatness of God, and then the shepherd king says: "For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart." In the epistle to the Hebrews we find this admonition repeated, and the text reads, "Exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin." Then this wonderful assurance follows: "For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end."

In the last four years we have many times been tempted to think that one day could accomplish little in the world's great need, quite forgetful of the fact that even the severity of the struggle but tended to show the thinker how deep the demands of Truth had gone, and to reveal the certainty that the working out of the world's great problem could mean no halfway measures for either men or nations. If in one day thousands were forced to let go of their baseless faith in human ways and means and were thereby led to turn unreservedly to God, who never fails the sincere seeker after Truth, then it was indeed a day "big with blessings" for the whole human race. More than that, on the divine side it meant the destruction of sin in a deeper and broader sense than had ever been known in human experience, and this destruction of sin would render impossible the hardening of the heart on the part of those who had experienced it.

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