Editorial February 1, 1947 Issue

The One Way of Growth

Margaret Morrison

Growth is the imperative demand of God, divine Mind, the eternal unfoldment of its own being, its own beauty, harmony, law, and power, within the infinite realm of its own reality. To the student of Christian Science growth means the ever-increasing awareness and understanding of the realities of being, of the might and majesty, the omnipotence and omnipresence, of Spirit.

This growth is individually imperative, the inevitable law of God, from which there is no escape, and it is made manifest in the beauty and order of one's daily living. The same demand is made on each one, whatsoever his living may appear to be, whether in the sheltered obscurity of home and its daily routine or in the arena of conflicting, ever-changing world policies and treaty making. And the student of Christian Science is called upon ever to render obedience to this demand of Spirit for growth in understanding and clarified reflection.

This one way of growth is purely spiritual. It is not entangled with, helped or hindered by the suppositional laws of growth in or of matter. On page 527 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes, "God could not put Mind into matter nor infinite Spirit into finite form to dress it and keep it,—to make it beautiful or to cause it to live and grow." Human parents anxiously watching the material growth of their own offspring, accepting and fearing the many contradictory and condemnatory suppositional laws of material birth and growth, should turn from this suppositional growth in matter to that sense of growth which is the unfoldment of Spirit, its laws and substantial verities. Then they may see the child grow and wax "strong in spirit, filled with wisdom;" see him nourished by Love divine, strengthened by Truth, guarded by intelligence, and obedient to Principle, growing by mandate of Mind, unmesmerized by the mirage of matter.

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