Editorial February 24, 1934 Issue

This is the Harvest Hour

Violet Ker Seymer

Through the practice of Christian Science the passing of what is called time can in every case register gain in spirituality, dominion, Godlikeness, awakeness. Spirit's image, man, is spiritually awake now and always, for in God, infinite Spirit, there is no hypnosis, mesmerism, or apathy, and nothing exists outside of infinite Mind. In Spirit and spiritual consciousness there is no time or occasion for sin, disease, and death, because there is no place for matter or belief in it.

Since spiritual perfection is everlasting, we should not wait until next week to declare and realize that man is every whit whole, free from temptation, abundantly blessed. Not even until tomorrow should we postpone the expulsion of superstitious beliefs and the conquest of their physical results. Nor need we delay until the next hour the experience of harmony which God is everlastingly imparting to His image. We apprehend good only as we reflect it and reflect it now.

True prophecy is spiritual discernment. Therefore the Revelator's declaration that "there should be time no longer" indicates that there is no time now, for eternality cannot be relegated to the future. In speaking of time and eternity, Mrs. Eddy says (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468), "One ceases in proportion as the other is recognized." Then our constant aim and achievement must be to recognize, acknowledge, acclaim, eternal being for ourselves and for all, now and forevermore. Time has neither starting point nor termination, and neither has man, who is the image of the "high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy." In Life, Love, divine Principle, there are no finite measurements or calculations; there is only the infinite calculus. In Soul and its expression there is no infancy or age. And since Soul is the ceaseless provider of spiritual perception, there are neither immature nor waning faculties. Hence health, intelligence, strength, activity, being spiritual in essence, are exempt from diminution or reversal through time theories or so-called material laws of sin, disease, and death, which pertain only to the delusive belief in matter. To the scientific thinker, acknowledging the eternality and universality of harmonious being, the years will not "draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them."

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