Article August 31, 1957 Issue

NO HURRY

ALICE CORTRIGHT

In her article "Improve Your Time" Mary Baker Eddy says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 230), "Rushing around smartly is no proof of accomplishing much." In a talk with a visitor from overseas, an American businessman once remarked that by hastening to another type of transportation he could arrive at his office several minutes sooner. "And what," calmly inquired the visitor, "do you do with those minutes saved?" His host had ruefully to admit that all he did was just to start rushing around his daily affairs that much sooner.

The hurrying habit can seriously interfere with the harmony of the home, of the office, and even of the community, because it encourages hasty judgments, wrong decisions, and confusion.

A hard taskmaster indeed is this hurrying habit for those who bow under its rod! But the earnest student of Christian Science soon learns that the most important part of his day is the time he spends in realizing God's good government, forever at hand, in which there is no failure, flurry, or frustration, and in seeing that his thought is controlled by divine law. He does this by studying the weekly Bible Lessons, outlined in the Christian Science Quarterly, and by being obedient to the instructions in Mrs. Eddy's writings which concern daily duties. It may demand some effort to start the day early enough to include spiritual preparation, but it is well worth it. The Psalmist sang (Ps. 5:3), "My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up." The Christian Scientist knows that uplifted thought brings about an unhurried, harmonious day.

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