Article December 19, 1925 Issue

Waiting

DONALD OWEN JAMES MESSENGER

ONE of the chief results of the belief of life in matter is the sense it generates of separation from good and the constant waiting for opportunities to grasp apparently desirable objects. On page 311 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy explains this sense of lack when she writes, "Through false estimates of soul as dwelling in sense and of mind as dwelling in matter, belief strays into a sense of temporary loss or absence of soul, spiritual truth."

How much of human experience seems to be made up of periods of waiting for the realization of some desired end! For human sense is continually striving to attain something beyond its present grasp. And as each object is brought within reach, it is found that complete satisfaction is not in it, but, like the will-o'-the-wisp, has darted far afield once more. So, again and again, come weary times of waiting; and after the attainment of each material object we cry with the Preacher, "Vanity of vanities; all is vanity."

But as through the true concept of Being given us by Christian Science we turn toward new goals, we begin to realize the truth of our Leader's words on the page already quoted from: "The objects cognized by the physical senses have not the reality of substance. They are only what mortal belief calls them." We now raise our objectives to more spiritual planes; but, still, in the attainment of them the belief in finite time and space seems to make necessary prolonged periods of waiting, which are not always filled with apparent development.

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