Editorial August 1, 1953 Issue

IMPROVING MOMENTS

Helen Wood Bauman

In her Message to The Mother Church for 1900 Mary Baker Eddy describes Christian Science as saying (p. 3): "The right thinker and worker does his best, and does the thinking for the ages. No hand that feels not his help, no heart his comfort. He improves moments; to him time is money, and he hoards this capital to distribute gain." Christian Science makes right thinkers, and it gives them plenty to do. It reveals God as one Mind, the only Mind of man and the wellspring of all his thoughts and activities. This inclines the Christian Scientist to discipline his thinking, to watch his thought processes, and to refuse to temporize with qualities and thoughts that do not come from Mind. It makes of moments valuable periods for progress in the demonstration of Truth.

When one once sees the tremendous significance of Christian Science, he develops diligence in spiritual effort that is consistent and constant. His eye has become single, and he refuses to waste even moments in idle or in perverse thinking. There is always some spiritual objective to attain, and scientific thought brings its attainment within reach. Consecration to the truth of being may be defined as moment by moment acknowledgment of the purity of the one Mind and the rejection of any thought that would admit impurity and imperfection to have existence.

It is in proportion to one's vision of the realm of Spirit and the perfection of the real spiritual creation that one feels impelled to improve moments in bringing the scientific sense of existence to light; that he resists wasting time in idle thinking and pursuits. The spiritually-minded rightly estimate the world's desperate need of the truth, as well as the amount of correct thought and effort necessary to bring the truth to all men. For that reason they do not dawdle, but intelligently apply themselves to scientifically proving the truths of character and action that are needed moment by moment.

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