Article June 17, 1950 Issue

TIME, OR ETERNITY?

MARGARET FLINT JACOBS

Far too often in human experience is the belief of lack of time cited as a reason for confusion, delay, or omission. Too often is the excuse made, "I simply haven't time!"

Now nobody would attempt to deny that for each of us there are the same twenty-four hours to the day, three hundred and sixty-five days to the year. Moreover, are modern inventions, supposedly, are saving time for us, so that for the individual there be less arduous labor than heretofore and more leisurely enjoyment of the comforts of our civilization. Why, then, do so many of us seem to be increasingly rushed and hurried, wearied and confused, while the more gracious and tranquil modes of thought are shoved into the background? How, and where, can we find the time we need for meditation and study and for congenial hours with family and friends?

Mary Baker Eddy was a master of the human sense of time. She accomplished stupendous amounts of work, yet those who knew her personally, and those who have written the several authorized accounts of her life, tell us that she seemed always serene, unhurried, and thoroughly competent to meet the exacting demands of her leadership. A study of her life and writings affords a degree of understanding as to how she did this. Serenity is attained by students who strive to follow her example.

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