WHAT a comforting sense of relief and peace comes with the assurance that we need not hurry! This is not merely a pleasant platitude, but a reasonable, intelligent, provable statement. Our true or spiritual habitation is maintained by the all-pervading Mind in constant, eternal harmony. In our true selfhood, then, we are not controlled by chance and change, pushed hither and thither by mortal fears in a struggle for good, achieving only uncertain, unsatisfying, imperfect results. Mind—divine, infinite, supreme—is God. God is everywhere, ever present, and all-powerful. We abide under His guidance and government. Herein are peace, poise, order—perfect cause producing perfect effect.

As we advance in the study of Christian Science, we assuredly become cognizant of spiritual harmony because of a transformation in our thinking. Our concept of God and man undergoes a great change. We see life in a holier light, as reflecting Life, God. No longer do we see love as an emotional quality of the carnal mind, but realize that it is the reflection of the vital, ever-operative divine Principle, Love. Being truthful is not merely refraining from uttering falsehoods; but through the unfoldment of Truth in our consciousness we learn that material falsity has no place in our relationship with God.

We awaken to see that our true activity, whether we are outwardly engaged in the world of letters, the business world, the college halls, or in the home, is a harmonious expression of God's plan for His children. All that reflects Him is irrefutably under His guidance and control, and as we realize this fact we are divinely guided and governed.

The recognition of this spiritual fact harmonizes our human sense of activity. We are no longer fearful of indefinite results in our work. We lose the frightened sense of false responsibility. We let go of hurry and worry. Instead, intelligence, spiritual poise, confidence, and love are manifested. We rejoice in obedience to Paul's wise counsel to the Corinthians, "Be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord."

With the dawn of each day, may our prayer ascend to God for the purified vision to perceive spiritual facts, and for the wisdom, courage, and love to apply them in overcoming falsities! With our consciousness thus illumined, we shall express throughout each happy day the spiritual, joyous ideas which come to us from Love. This unfolding of good embraces eternity, in which there are no passing years, with the attending beliefs of age, decrepitude, dissolution, but only the glorious, eternal now of true being.

Mrs. Eddy writes in the Glossary in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 598, 599): "Time is a mortal thought, the divisor of which is the solar year. Eternity is God's measurement of Soul-filled years." If we would be faithful laborers in His vineyard, echoing the glad tones of harmony, proving our God-given dominion in our daily experiences, we must strive to gain the spiritual comprehension of eternity.

God's purpose for us is not contingent on time. It is concomitant with eternity. The divine activity is not circumscribed by or subjected to time. To the degree that we link our thinking with eternity, our activity is liberated from the limitations of time, and proportionately attests the operation of God's law of harmony. The door is closed to the intruding, tyrannizing beliefs of impulsive, ill-directed, futile labor. In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 230), "A great amount of time is consumed in talking nothing, doing nothing, and indecision as to what one should do." In the next paragraph she speaks of "three ways of wasting time," and adds, "Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much."

In Isaiah are these beautiful words: "Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste." Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, pp. 23, 24), "The Hebrew verb to believe means also to be firm or to be constant." As we stand firm with Principle in all that we do, we are conformed to its orderly influence. The false sense of haste is eliminated, and perception, patience, punctuality, and perseverance result.

It has been wisely said, "We use our mortal concept of time improvidently and then try to get it back by hurrying." A student of Christian Science found herself doing this very thing. She kept watching the clock, hurrying through one task to take over another. There was not the orderly thinking which puts first things first. One day, as she hurried about, her thought was arrested by the counsel in the Bible, "Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." She dropped the task at hand and earnestly pondered the message. She questioned herself, Have I been doing the work "to the glory of God"? She had to acknowledge that she had not. But as she sat in quiet communion with God, she began to understand how to let Him direct her way, and how to be obedient to His will. She proved, in some measure, that hurry has no legitimate place. The clamor of time was silenced, and a physical claim was permanently healed. Let us awaken to see that, in Science, we are governed by divine intelligence and can do whatever God directs us to do. We cannot become discouraged or depressed, or entertain a sense of hurry, when we understand that our real work is to reflect Love and be obedient to God, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent good.

As we rise hour by hour in proving our eternal heritage, we nullify the aggressive suggestions of time, selfishness, fear, and the attempt to fashion our work according to a mortal model. Then, guided by the rule of perfection, governed by the law of Love, we gain the true sense of freedom.