Editorial July 29, 1939 Issue

Eliminating Time and Space

George Shaw Cook

"Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? .... If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me." The writer of the foregoing words must have had a clear glimpse of the omnipresence of God, and of the fact that where God is man is. Such vision transcends the limitations of time and space, as they are ordinarily considered, and lifts thought above the plane of materiality into the realm of limitless spiritual being.

In human experience constantly improving means of air transport are greatly diminishing the finite sense of space and gradually eliminating time as a factor in transportation. Improved facilities for rapid transit on land and sea likewise tend to bring closer together heretofore widely separated peoples and nations. These conditions brought to pass through human invention and ingenuity will be all the better appreciated when considered in connection with what Mary Baker Eddy says on page 90 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," as follows: "Divest yourself of the thought that there can be substance in matter, and the movements and transitions now possible for mortal mind will be found to be equally possible for the body."

To the extent that it becomes known that matter is not substantial, but is only a false, fleeting concept of that which Christian Science calls mortal mind, cumbersome material or mechanical means of transportation will be improved upon and, finally, dispensed with. However, all that has to do with the transportation of persons and things pertains solely to human experience, and is based upon the belief that man is included in a three-dimensional universe. Mrs. Eddy, on page 61 of "Unity of Good," says, "Coming and going belong to mortal consciousness." And that is true, whether it applies to persons or to conditions of mortal existence.

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