Editorial December 24, 1904 Issue

Progress

"The keynote for the world's progress for 1905 will be 'Truth.' Men and women have come to recognize that to make progress means a free mind steadfast for fact instead of tradition. In proportion as they have learned to work with untrammeled brain, there has been progress in every department of life, in Science, in Government, in Education, in Literature. Those who achieve must stand with open minds ready to receive the truth."

The above remarkable and inspiring message which appears on the cover of the Christmas number of one of the leading magazines,—The Cosmopolitan,—will appeal to every man and woman who is working for the welfare and enlightenment of humanity, but to Christian Scientists the words carry a far deeper meaning than can be given to them by those who have not yet accepted the definition of God, contained in the statement, "God is divine Principle, supreme incorporeal Being, Mind, Spirit, Life, Truth, Love" (Science and Health, p. 465).

To the Christian Scientist, all right action, all progress, all that makes for the good of mankind is the manifestation of infinite Truth, God, and only as we understand our relation to Him, appeal to Him, and obey Him, can we really progress. Mrs. Eddy has said in Science and Health, "Eternal Truth is changing the universe. As mortals shake off their swaddling-clothes, thought expands into expression. 'Let there be light' is the perpetual demand of Truth and Love,—changing chaos into order, and discord into the music of the spheres" (p. 255). "To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, to-day is big with blessings. ... Now across a night of error dawn the morning beams, and shines the guiding star of Truth. ... The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity, Contentment with the past and the cold conventionality of materialism are crumbling away" (Preface, p. vii.).

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