Article June 10, 1950 Issue

"THAT WHICH IS PAST"

MARY POWELL HOWE

Much has been written about the Scriptural passage, "God requireth that which is past" (Eccl. 3:15), and it probably has its application to every individual. Many have sorrowed over the past, for things done and undone, sins of omission and commission, to no purpose except to tinge the present with regretful remembrance of the past; for we are accustomed to think of that which is past as irrevocable, something that cannot be changed or corrected, and to believe we must suffer the effects if ill has been done by us or to us.

We need to correct all evil in our thinking about the past, as well as the present and the future. Some may have cleansed their consciousness of former evils, resentments, and hatreds; but what about sickness, which is so often thought of as hereditary or as related to the past? Perhaps we have not connected past mortal events held unconsciously in thought with present experiences of physical illness.

A student had been studying Christian Science for several years when she wakened one night with a severe pain in one side of her face. She tried to realize her true relation to God as His spiritual child, in whom only harmony is expressed, but she did not succeed very well because of the severe pain. So she decided to call a friend who was a

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