Article March 7, 1936 Issue

Day

BEULAH WHITTAKER

"THIS is the day which the Lord hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it." A student of Christian Science, who always had loved these words of the Psalmist, awoke one morning confronted with an alarming sense of illness and an acute sense of pain. Striving to lift her thought away from the body and to admit the truth of being into her consciousness, she again pondered these words. Realizing that the day about which the Psalmist sang and the human concept of day were distinctly different, she turned to the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Sciptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and very earnestly pondered the definition of "day" as given on page 584. Here our Leader defines "day" as "the irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love." In the next paragraph she says: "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.' "

This, the student thought, is the day glimpsed by the Psalmist and about which he sang. Surely one can be glad and rejoice in this day which divine Love has made. Mankind need no longer fear or accept the human belief of the fleeting day, which so often promises only illness and confinement to a bed of suffering. Like everything in Mind's universe, day is a spiritual condition. It is the illumination of spiritual sense. Divine Mind is constantly illumining the universe with the light and glory of intelligence and love. It has prepared nothing but the eternal sunshine of good for man. It presents only that which is pure, innocent, inoffensive. This day of Spirit, God, never comes to a close, but is forever dawning upon human consciousness, illumining it with the grand realities of being. With this dawn, fear, pain, and inharmony are dispelled.

As these beautiful truths were allowed to glow in the student's consciousness, the illness and pain became less and less, and she arose healed. She had realized the great fact that in the day which divine Love has made, only good is imparted; only the joys of Soul are manifested. This day is a day of holy inspiration, and is filled with rich and exquisite beauty, since, as our Leader has said in a marginal heading (Science and Health, p. 280), "The things of God are beautiful." That which is ugly or monotonous is unreal, and spiritual man can neither fear nor resent it.

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