Article October 11, 1930 Issue

Fulfillment, not Postponement

Charles C. Butterworth

Christian Science teaches that God is good—ever present, all-sufficient good; that God is with us, and that, having God, we have all we need. The omnipresence of God, good, follows from the fact that God is infinite; but in order that we may perceive the presence and availability of good, we must be willing to look beyond the evidence of the so-called physical senses. Our search for God is misdirected if we assume that He is afar off. Rather should we find Him here by repudiating the false testimony of material sense. Since Spirit is infinite, creation must forever be sustained by the presence of God.

Regardless of what seems to be present to the physical senses, Christian Science assures us that God is ever present to spiritual consciousness. Divine Principle is always active, perfect, and available—active as law, perfect as government, available as power. In reality, man and the universe are completely endowed with every spiritual grace, with health, holiness, beauty, intelligence, the gifts of our Father-Mother God.

There can never be more of good than infinite good, and the divine creation is complete and perfect now. Then, how alert we should be not to defer our mental awakening to this glorious heritage; and how earnestly we should correct and discipline our thoughts, so that they may constantly realize good and bring it nearer to human sense. Reasoning from false premises, the age-long habit of human thought has been to accept imperfection as a present fact, and to relegate perfection to a distant future, to a Golden Age or a vague Elysium. The poet's familiar line, "Man never is, but always to be blest," voices the thought of humanity in general. The divine fact, however, is expressed in Jesus' phrase, "The hour is coming, and now is." The first public utterance of the Messiah, as recorded in the Gospel of Mark, was one of fulfillment, not of postponement: "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel."

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