Editorial June 19, 1965 Issue

The Things That Are Eternal

Helen Wood Bauman

We learn through Christian Science that eternity is not extended time. Eternity has its own characteristics, and one of them is timelessness. Eternity is never involved with matter or material place. It is neither when nor then, where nor there. Whatever is associated with God is eternal. The least good we experience has always existed and cannot lose its ability to increase, since it reflects exhaustless, forever-unfolding Mind. The knowledge of these facts helps us to keep a perpetual grasp on whatever is right in our lives and not to lose it temporarily through our own fault or through any external evil influence.

Mary Baker Eddy says in "Unity of Good" (p. 8): "All that is beautiful and good in your individual consciousness is permanent. That which is not so is illusive and fading."

Many people intuitively love the good and beautiful in human life, but they lose it because they do not realize what Christian Science reveals—that they are in possession of reality, which is man's eternal heritage. If they would acknowledge the unity of all good as the expression of one Principle, and see their present realization of harmony, abundance, and health as their reflection of God, they would move more quickly into the absolute realization of heaven. They would take advantage of the power which the eternal wields over the temporal, and they would be able to defend their right to the infinity of good. Then the "illusive and fading" would fail to hold their attention, and the permanent and eternal would fill thought and be established there.

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