Article September 26, 1931 Issue

The Victory

JOHN CUNNINGHAM FLINN

Each day provides opportunity for the young student of Christian Science to try his newly won spiritual strength, and thus measure his progress in understanding by the actual test of demonstration. To make this test he needs the seclusion of his own thoughts.

Early in his investigation of this Science the student learns the importance of demonstration and the impotence of mere theory. Many beginners have faced hard problems at the very outset of their study, and have won glorious victory over sin and sickness or some other enslaving condition. The proving ground of Christian Science is the student's everyday life.

Young students enter eagerly into the study of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and the other works by Mary Baker Eddy, and the Bible, oftentimes reclaimed from disuse on the library shelf. The first steps to a changed human consciousness may be taken slowly or quickly; but however firmly set an old dogma may seem to be, it is definitely expelled from thought as the new-old truth is understood.

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