Editorial December 28, 1940 Issue

Days and Years

George Shaw Cook

They who live in the northern hemisphere have recently experienced the passing of the shortest day in the calendar year, the day in which the least time elapses between sunrise and sunset. Those in the opposite hemisphere would have had the opposite experience; the span of daylight on that date would have been the longest of the year.

Christian Science shows that the real day—the spiritual concept thereof—is neither long nor short. It includes neither dawn nor dusk. It is not measured materially, nor is it concerned in any way with the mortal sense of time. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, defines "day" on page 584 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," in part, as follows: "The irradiance of Life; light, the spiritual idea of Truth and Love." And in the same definition she continues: "The objects of time and sense disappear in the illumination of spiritual understanding, and Mind measures time according to the good that is unfolded. This unfolding is God's day, and 'there shall be no night there.' "

It is obvious that the "irradiance of Life" is not finite or limited. Life being eternal, its radiant manifestation or expression is likewise without beginning or ending. Its limitless activity is not interrupted by periods called nights, nor can it be properly associated with the thought of times or seasons. Its unfoldment is as steadfast and constant as its divine Principle—Life, Truth, Love.

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