Editorial January 30, 1954 Issue

"REJOICING ALWAYS BEFORE HIM"

Robert Ellis Key

The past or future cannot inflict loss or suffering when we realize that we live in the ever-presence of God, or good. To look back in grateful memory for the good that has come to us from God is to see the past in its right perspective. To look forward to the exercise of a higher measure of demonstration in Christian Science is to survey the horizon with the expectancy of receiving and reflecting Truth.

Past and future must glorify God or cease to exist for us. Mortal mind, so called, cannot accept this viewpoint, but would reverse it. Mortal mind points to a material birth and an unhappy history. It insists that one passes through such a period and that its ill effects invade one's present experience. Mortal mind would make character dependent on the beliefs of human parentage and tie one to the so-called laws of heredity, from which it insists there is no escape.

To what extent are we claiming our rights to harmony as the children of a divine Father, as the sons and daughters of God? Again, mortal mind may point a warning finger to the future and suggest that it holds for us only twilight and darkness, merging into death. God, divine Love, knows no such outline of mortality. In the knowledge of the eternal Mind we exist forever as the radiant expression, the glorious reflection, of our heavenly parent, divine Love.

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