THE everlasting truth about creation antidotes the human belief in chronology with its alternate promises and threats, prospects and retrospects, present subjection and future millennium. Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health, p. 479), "In the vast forever, in the Science and truth of being, the only facts are Spirit and its innumerable creations." Because in this "vast forever" of Spirit there is no matter or material evidence on which to predicate fear or cramped calculations, God's image is not subject to incipiency, decline, or extinction.
The application of Christian Science does away with the oppression and deferred harmony engendered by the belief in time and materiality. It liberates human thought from undesirable conditions and from weary waiting upon time to effect needful changes and reforms in individual experience. When faced with any discord, we should ask ourselves, Is this discord a fact of Spirit, a part of "the vast forever"? Since it is not, then it is no part of the now, and no part of us. In Ecclesiastes we read, "I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it;" and again, "That which hath been is now." Everything real is everlastingly good. Redemptive Truth will never be more true than it is now, and evil will never be more scientifically obsolete than it is now. In practical ways Christian Science brings the harmony of "the vast forever" into the now of human experience. Then "let what False Belief utters, now and forever, fall into oblivion, 'unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown'" (ibid., p. 441). "False Belief" is not destroyed by the passing of time, but by the coming of spiritual understanding.
Yet some may still ask timorously, Can we really prove the power of Truth when suffering seems so near and harmony so remote? Yes, we can do so through spiritual sense, which enables us to prove the healing potency of spiritual facts. God's image is spiritual, and his spiritual sense of himself and the universe has never been invaded by any belief in time or incapacity. But how shall spiritual sense be acquired in the face of apparent mental density? He who asks this question may be looking too much to unaided human effort and too little to the spontaneity of spiritual reflection. Divine Love restores spiritual sense to each one who longs for it wholeheartedly, and who proves the sincerity of this longing by consecrated study, watchful thinking, and illumined prayer. All must look to divine Love for spiritual vision and also for strength to maintain this vision, in defiance of arguments of fear, discouragement, and doubt. Divinely inspired prayer is divinely answered; righteous declaration of the truth heralds righteous demonstration.
