Article November 4, 1922 Issue

"Now is the accepted time"

MARY HELEN LUDLOW

"Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation," declared Paul in his second epistle to the Corinthians. "Now is." There is no "is-to-be," in reality, for God is All-in-all. He is now. All through the Scriptures we read, "God is," "God is." Not once do we find that God will not be God until to-morrow; that God will not be Love until next month. He is Love this instant; and no evidence of the material senses to the contrary can change the fact.

To make more complete cures in the practice of Christian Science, and to make them more quickly, we must realize more perfectly the omnipresent, omnipotent, and omniscient reality of God. God's creation is complete now, and the real man does now express all the qualities of God; for, as Mrs. Eddy states in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 465), "Principle and its idea is one." Man has always reflected and does now reflect all the qualities of God. Nothing shall by any means separate man for a moment from his divine Principle, or cause him to express less than all of the attributes of Principle. Nor is there any power able to cause him to express anything which is contrary to Principle, the altogether lovely and lovable God. In healing so-called chronic and incurable cases of illness, we need to remember, first of all, that there is no such thing in real existence as a chronic or incurable case. The only thing that cannot be changed by any means is the work of God, the relation of man to his divine Cause. Sickness is not a part of the changeless Being who is God; false belief is wholly mortal, changing, and self-destructive. There is, there can be, no real disease.

If, as stated, there is in reality no sickness, what is there for the Christian Scientist to do? Is he without any healing work to perform? No, he has a very real work to do; but it is not the healing of man. God created man to have dominion over all; and so, disease cannot gain control of man. All that God created He saw as "very good;" and we are told that He made all that was made. So, man, who has always been and always will be the image and likeness of God, good, is not, never has been, and never can be sick; and thus the work of the Scientist can never be that of healing man. Disease is not true or real, because it is not of God; it does not express any of the attributes of God. It can, then, be nothing but a false belief of mortal, so-called mind, with no beginning and no existence in the realm of Truth. It has the same supposititious basis as the error that two times two are five. In correcting this mathematical mistake we do not have to destroy anything.

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