Recently there have been appearing in the Pacific Northwest, along the highways, large signboards bearing the inscription, "Honestly now, what's your hurry?" How many are prepared to answer that question satisfactorily? Has it not become habitual with some persons to rush from place to place, to crowd the hours with any sort of activity, and yet to complain, "I don't know where the time goes"?
It would seem sensible to take an inventory of one's thoughts to determine what the trouble is, and to correct it. Modern inventions through which business may be quickly transacted with the help of rapid transportation have their rightful utility. But the general belief in the necessity for speed apparently becomes ever more insistent, since mortal mind goes to extremes. Honest investigation will reveal the need to gain freedom from this form of slavery, if we wish to exercise the dominion which belongs to those whose only haste should be to reach the goal of goodness, contentment, and peace.
In considering the experiences of the great characters in the Bible we may assume that Samuel, Elisha, Daniel, and Paul took time for quiet communion with God, in order to meet calmly the demands upon them to prove their trust in God by prophesying, healing, raising the dead. To think of Jesus as ever having been unduly in haste is impossible. Though he was always about his Father's business, filling the time with loving service, he yet waited two days before going to the house of his beloved friend, Lazarus, who was reputed to be sick. His recognition of spiritual power over all circumstances made him the most calm and poised of men. Through Christian Science we learn that it is our duty to emulate the example of these spiritually-minded men—mighty through their trust in God's omnipotence and ever-presence.
