Article November 27, 1920 Issue

Signs of the Times

with contributions from Thomas A. Edison, James A. Back, Arthur Quiller-Couch, George Arliss, Frederic Harrison, Bruce R. Taylor

["Signs of Progress"—The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, U.S.A., Oct. 26, 1920]

Throughout history, whatever has truly been good has been real and whatever has been bad has been ephemeral illusion. In other words, that which has constructively expressed the divine Mind has endured, whereas that which has been even suppositionally destructive has been reduced in the end to the nothingness which it always was. Of course the really constructive expression of divine Principle has ever been spiritual idea, quite apart from the theory of matter. So it is idea that has continued. Spiritual idea has never been affected by either so-called human recognition or lack of recognition. All the while, the immortal idea of Life has remained immortal idea, continuously unfolding because of its infinite source. The spirituality of the true universe has remained the fact, in spite of human hypotheses.

It is not surprising, then, that in all ages there have been signs of progress, glimpses of the true idea. To-day, through understanding of Christian Science, it is possible to see the more clearly what the better glimpses of the past have meant. Even though a man may not have himself known the full import of what he was reasoning out, the idea of which he got the slightest perception forever survives intact, through the time of ruin which comes to all sorts of mere human beliefs. Through comprehension of the immortal idea involves the experience of eternity as actually here and now. By knowing and practicing what the divine Mind knows, one finds what always has been true, and rejoices in every evidence of discernment of the truth that there ever has been.

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