Article March 11, 1939 Issue

Good Is Now

MARJORIE LIGERTWOOD

UNTIL she took up the study of Christian Science, the writer, though a devoted Bible reader, never realized how often the word "now" is used in the Scriptures in connection with salvation and healing; and the realization of this presence of good has meant much to her in the unfoldment of Christian Science. In Revelation is the assurance, "Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night." In the Bible the now of good is emphasized over and over again.

In II Corinthians we read, "Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." Referring to these words, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder Christian Science, writes on page 39 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "'Now,' cried the apostle, 'is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation,'— meaning, not that now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now is the time in which to experience that salvation in spirit and in life." And on page 573 of the same book she tells us that "we can become conscious, here and now, of a cessation of death, sorrow, and pain;" and on page 574 she says, "This spiritual consciousness is therefore a present possibility."

We can truly be conscious only of "now." What we now believe about our past is what constitutes the past for us. We can now change our consciousness in conformity with God's law, and so clear our thought of whatever may have seemed to be discordant in the past. This true witnessing to reality also applies to what is called the future, for what we accept as true now affects our future.

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