Article February 21, 1953 Issue

"YESTERDAY, AND TO-DAY, AND FOREVER"

HENRY N. ROBERTS

What of the past and the future? How are we to deal with them? These are questions often uppermost in human hearts, but too often the answers are uncertain and fail to satisfy. The study of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy reveals many basic truths which serve to prevent or destroy the ill effects apparently brought about by these two phases of so-called material existence. In considering the subject we need to ponder these truths: the worth and perfection of all that God made; the unreality of all that He did not make.

Mrs. Eddy assures us in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 94), "There is no 'lo here! or lo there!' in divine Science; its manifestation must be 'the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever,' since Science is eternally one, and unchanging, in Principle, rule, and demonstration." It is clear, then, that the harmonious truths of being always have existed, now exist, and always will exist.

Man is the uninterrupted reflection of his creator, God. He experiences only what divine Principle outlines, and he possesses nothing underived from Spirit. Mistakes of the past and forebodings of the future are therefore only meddling, intrusive suggestions of the so-called carnal mind to be destroyed by the truth of man's ever-present perfection as God's likeness. We must refuse to accept the sense testimony which seeks to make us believe that we have been or may be separated from infinite good. Both the history and the prediction of error are untrue; and we must realize this in order to see error and its effects as nothing.

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