There is no more remarkable phenomenon in the modern world than the speed with which means of transportation and communication have expanded. Indeed, today the danger is that we may become too blase about this extraordinary broadening of men's capacity to both communicate with and visit fellow beings anywhere on earth, a capacity that has now been extended to include the moon. This swiftly progressing expansion of mankind's abilities in two such important fields is not only an earnest of a rapid improvement in human conditions but also present evidence of the liberating influence of the divine Mind in human affairs, an influence which has come to the world through the discovery of Christian Science.
It is instructive to note that on more than one occasion Christ Jesus specifically and deliberately foreshadowed that conquest over the limitations of time and space which men are only now beginning to prove in still imperfect ways. Although on most occasions he traveled on foot, at times the Master showed his absolute mastery over the universally accepted limitations of both time and space by instantaneously transporting himself from one spot to another, suddenly appearing in his disciples' midst, and disappearing from the sight and clutch of his enemies. And in perhaps the most impressive of all such demonstrations on his part was the occasion when he joined his followers in a ship on the storm-tossed waves of the Sea of Galilee "and immediately the ship was at the land whither they went."John 6:21
No less remarkable was the Way-shower's ability to overcome the world's equally strong conviction that time and distance limited one's capacity to communicate with other men. Consider the experience on the mount of transfiguration. when Christ Jesus not only beheld but actually talked with Moses and Elijah, who had passed on many hundreds of years before. Furthermore, so clear and full was the Master's demonstration over human limitations that the three disciples accompanying him were also enabled to see and hear those two great figures of ancient Israel. At another time Jesus saw and knew about a pure young man named Nathanael while the latter was "under the fig tree," 1:48 and thus beyond the human ken of the Master.
