Editorial January 30, 1937 Issue

"There shall be time no longer"

Violet Ker Seymer

In Ecclesiastes the Preacher asserts that there is "a time" for birth and death, killing and healing, mourning and dancing, getting and losing, "a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace." Thus he depicts the checkered results of misdirected thinking. This array of sense impressions corresponds with all that is implied in Mrs. Eddy's definition of "time" on page 595 of Science and Health. Fluctuating prospects, fitful health and happiness, present trials with rewards to follow in a conjectural hereafter—this is the general picture held before humanity by the carnal mind. For this medley of experiences, it is believed, there is "a time."

Christian Science reveals that in eternal Truth there is no time for a sequence of mistakes, trials, and penalties. It contradicts the assertion that we must learn still more painful lessons in order that we may finally perceive and enter into the harmony of spiritual being. What is the truth about this lie of human devising? It is that spiritual man eternally beholds and expresses the reality of spiritual being. The truth is that under God's law there is no time or necessity for jealousy, tremor, war, reprisal, mourning, anxiety, failure. It is that in the divine plan there is no deprivation, no fluctuating supply, no forfeited heritage.

In the desert, faced with a hungry multitude, the disciples said to Jesus, "The time is far passed: send them away, that they may ... buy themselves bread." Material sense deceives some into believing that "the time is far passed" when they may expect to recover health, innocence, joy, freedom from oppressive care. Many believe they are abandoned in a desert of difficulties, struggling alone with affliction, handicapped at every turn, and having to seek freedom on a material basis through unaided personal effort, which is doomed to failure.

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