Article May 15, 1943 Issue

An Opportunity and a Challenge

FRANK F. BUNKER

If Christian Scientists were to tell what it was that turned them to serious study of the Bible, as interpreted by our beloved Leader, most of them would say that it was a great personal need.

With some it was physical suffering and the need to obtain relief from pain. With some it was the loss of loved ones and the need to quiet the heartache. With some it was business reverses and the need to overcome a sense of defeat. With others it was fear expressing itself in one or more of the many forms which this monster assumes in its role of terrifying and paralyzing mankind. Still others turned to Christian Science to satisfy an inner craving for a deeper and more satisfying spiritual life.

Diversified as are the circumstances which cause men to take the first step on the pathway from sense to Soul, such action results, in nearly every case, from realization by the individual that he is in dire extremity. Indeed, with many before recourse to Christian Science is had, the gamut of human aids and agencies is run, and so, as Mrs. Eddy has fittingly expressed it in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 322). "The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love."

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