Article November 26, 1938 Issue

Do Not Postpone Heaven

HERBERT E. RIEKE

In one sense, "heaven" is defined as "any place of supreme happiness or great comfort." Most thinkers have been willing to grant that such a condition might be possible somewhere or at some time, but they have been almost unanimous in agreeing that it is not to be found on earth today. Some have thought of heaven as coming after death. Others have regarded it as the millennium coming sometime in the future.

The mistaken concept of heaven as being only a distant or future condition or state, Christian Science denies. Heaven is a present possibility. Did not Jesus say, "The kingdom of God is at hand," and within you"?

In an address before some members of The Mother Church, referring to the Master's words, Mary Baker Eddy said (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 251): "Think of this inheritance! Heaven right here, where angels are as men, clothed more lightly, and men as angels who, burdened for an hour, spring into liberty, and the good they would do, that they do, and the evil they would not do, that they do not."

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