The new year precipitates for most people not a little thought of the passage of time, of that mighty tide which seems to lave all shores and silently to gather up all creatures and events and bear them swiftly on and away into the unfathomable deep of the past. And yet, emblazoned upon the unfading blue of heaven, men of spiritual vision have seen these golden words, "Behold, I make all things new,"—words that tell of the activity of that Life which knows neither age nor disintegration, and which preserves all reality in the freshness of an immortal youth.
St. John drops his plummet into the profoundest depths of thought when he declares that "all things were made by him," by the manifestation of the divine activity. The element on which time lays its devastating hand is thus dismissed from the thought of substance, and the nature and perpetuity of the created thing is brought into conformity with the nature and perpetuity of the creator. Acceptance of the testimony of the senses has sundered the metaphysical relation between intelligence and its activities, science has been sacrificed, and eternal life has become subject to the tooth of time!
Here Christian Science enters its protest, and inaugurates a mental reform. The thought of God, infinite Spirit, as giving being to something utterly unlike Himself and subject to laws which can in no way be associated with the divine nature, is gradually given up. We no longer think of substance as the union of intelligence and non-intelligence, Mind and matter, Life and death. The factor which is subject to decay and death is no longer related to God, made a part of His creation. It is seen to belong to false sense, and we begin to identify creation with the creator. We see that Principle and its idea are forever at-one, and that the nature of the divine Life is revealed in all that lives in Him. The Scripture statement that God "is from everlasting to everlasting," precludes the possibility of subjecting our thought of Him to any time limitation. Every manifestation of His activity must, in the nature of the case, reveal Him, hence it must be forever new. It is not subject to age or decay for the reason that it must ever comport with the eternal Life which it expresses and which constitutes its being.
