Editorial November 24, 1951 ISSUE

THERE IS NO TIME

Richard J. Davis

The revelator of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, with inspired vision uncovers the bondage of time and its association with everything that is mortal and finite. In the Glossary of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 595), she defines "time" thus: "Mortal measurements; limits, in which are summed up all human acts, thoughts, beliefs, opinions, knowledge; matter; error; that which begins before, and continues after, what is termed death, until the mortal disappears and spiritual perfection appears."

How clear it is that everything we do or say humanly is largely concerned with days, hours, years, and even centuries; and yet one day with Mind and its infinitude is as a thousand years. We think and act in terms of time. All plans for what we call the future and all our so-called memories of a past are associated with the element of time. The lives and careers of mortals are, according to belief, crowded into a mortal time measurement, which plays such an important part in human affairs that unconsciously mortal man is virtually its slave.

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