Article February 8, 1941 Issue

A Present Salvation

CONSTANCE CHOISY

"Now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation." Paul's words bring a cheering and significant message in these days, when the carnal mind claims power to devastate in a cruel war. This glorious assurance of salvation as a present possibility encourages each one to do his part in spreading the gospel of good tidings, not merely in words, but in spiritual thinking, which blesses and helps universally.

It is because men have not understood salvation as a present spiritual experience that they have become darkened and disappointed when the cherished beliefs and hidden snares of materiality are being shaken to their very foundations. Salvation comes to consciousness as a divine awakening to the facts of being, not as a personal dispensation. It is the false belief that God allows good and evil to mingle in human experience which makes the accepted time of salvation seem afar off.

When speaking of John's vision, Mary Baker Eddy in her textbook. "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," says (p. 573): "The Revelator was on our plane of existence, while yet beholding what the eye cannot see,—that which is invisible to the uninspired thought. This testimony of Holy Writ sustains the fact in Science, that the heavens and earth to one human consciousness, that consciousness which God bestows, are spiritual, while to another, the unillumined human mind, the vision is material." Salvation must therefore be the revelation of the truth that real existence is wholly spiritual, because God made all that was made, and forever maintains His creation. Christ Jesus said, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

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