Article August 29, 1959 Issue

FULFILLMENT IS NOW

ALICE EMERSON BOYSEN

One day, while contemplating the fact of God's allness, His infinite presence and power, a student of Christian Science was suddenly awakened to see the many suggestions of incompleteness or unfulfilled desires she had been accepting as realities. It was shocking to find that she had inadvertently accepted a belief of waiting for someone to become healthier, for a financial condition to improve, for human relations to be harmonized, and even for an increased appreciation of the activities of the Christian Science movement to become evident.

It was now apparent to her that such acceptance of either delayed or incomplete good was utterly contrary to the teachings of Christian Science and especially to its second tenet. She had seen many healings take place as the result of obedience to that tenet, which is found on page 497 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, and which reads as follows: "We acknowledge and adore one supreme and infinite God. We acknowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost or divine Comforter; and man in God's image and likeness."

It became clear to the student that one cannot love God supremely and at the same time harbor a false god or a belief in time as having power, since God, the eternal, is omnipotent. The world suggests that we must let time elapse before we can expect fulfillment, but what has time or the revolutions of the planets to do with infinite Love's revelation? The planets merely indicate the beauty, activity, and harmony of Love's universal ideas; they do not affect the forever unfolding of those ideas in any respect, either to delay their manifestation or to further it.

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