Article May 21, 1921 Issue

Signs of the Times

["The Unit of Measure"—The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, U.S.A., April 5, 1921]

Eternity is the unit of measure of man's age. Nothing less will avail to determine the range of his existence, and since Mind unfolds eternity, unlimited Mind is the measure of man. A year, a decade, threescore and ten, and all the rest of earth's chosen rods for judging man's being must eventually be laid aside forever. These rods, which have a beginning in birth and an end in death, are impositions whose claims must dissolve before reality.

There is a simple Bible passage which is an inspiration to mankind, a passage in which Caleb tells Joshua: "Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land.... I wholly followed the Lord my God.... and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in." Men who follow the "Lord our God" in this time have Mind and its idea as all, and they have nothing else. The reward of having this ideal ever before them is instant and eternal: the life that knows no end, the strength that never ebbs, and the wholeness that is everything real.

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