Article November 1, 1924 Issue

Disappearance of Time and Sense

AMELIA MORSE

One of the most wonderful truths Christian Science teaches is the fact that man is not dependent on the calendar divisions of time for the supply of everything he needs. Its study removes from the so-called human mind the belief in past, present, and future, with its attendant thoughts of human origin and limitation, and gives in exchange a practical knowledge of the laws of the eternal divine Principle, which govern man; of his divine sonship, and his right to share in the boundless blessings of eternal supply. Mrs. Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 584): "The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God's day, and 'there shall be no night there.'"

Jesus, the perfect example of spiritual understanding, made clear this very point when he put to the disciples the question, "Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest." The Master saw that the disciples were mentally supporting "the objects of time and sense" by waiting for the spurious laws of matter to bring evidences of supply. Recognizing that the need of his devoted followers was "the illumination of spiritual understanding," Jesus lifted their mental gaze from the limited, incomplete, and finite—which false concept he knew would prevent their progress in the demonstration of spiritual substance—into the realm of the unlimited, complete, and infinite, where the divine concept of creation was revealed and understood.

In studying the works of Christ Jesus in the light of Christian Science, one soon learns that it was the breaking down, through spiritual understanding, of this mesmerism of time and sense which enabled him to demonstrate to the multitude that an abundance of food was available in a seemingly barren place; that raised his loved friend Lazarus from the belief of death, after he had "lain in the grave four days;" that enabled Peter to find the tribute money in the mouth of a fish at the moment it was required. And, again, on the Sea of Galilee, when Jesus walked on the water and the disciples "received him into the ship," it, the ship, was immediately "at the land whither they went."

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