Article January 17, 1925 Issue

Progress

MILDRED G. HACKNEY

ON a journey we may sometimes seem to advance and then retreat or, perhaps, to ascend one side of a mountain and descend the other into a valley; at which times we may wonder if we are really progressing. In "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 2) Mrs. Eddy writes: "Healing physical sickness is the smallest part of Christian Science. It is only the bugle-call to thought and action, in the higher range of infinite goodness." This call to higher or more spiritual thinking, and the putting of thought into action, means progress for the student of Christian Science.

It is "in the valley of decision" we are required again to choose whom we will serve, and to resolve to take a firm stand for divine Principle, knowing that we can be deprived of nothing real, that if we leave all for Christ, Truth, those things which are necessary for our welfare and happiness shall be added unto us.

A soldier who enlists in his country's cause is often required to give up many material comforts for the meager accommodations of army life. Are we, as Christian Scientists, willing to renounce selfish ease and pleasure for the sake of bringing to others what we have received of spiritual peace and joy? If so, we shall find that, step by step, we shall be brought into a fuller understanding of real being, and that our human needs will be taken care of.

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