Article January 7, 1956 Issue

THE ETERNAL NOW

JOHN H. HOAGLAND

"Organization and time have nothing to do with Life," writes Mary Baker Eddy on page 249 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and she precedes this consummate dismissal of the material sense of time with the assurance, "Life is, like Christ, 'the same yesterday, and to-day, and forever."

This ringing challenge should awaken all who regard a new year as merely marking another milestone in a material, aging process, another step on a pathway between youth and decrepitude, another curtain rising on a relentless struggle with a material sense of existence.

The eternal now and the infinite here of spiritual being constitute the standpoint of the real man's present and continuous existence in Christian Science. The contrary, erroneous belief that man is a material personality, existing tentatively in space and time, is one of the most pernicious mortal falsities, and nothing is more essential to individual welfare and progress than the uncompromising rejection of this mistaken premise.

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