Article December 16, 1933 Issue

Going Forward

LULA W. CRUM

One day, as a student of Christian Science was walking toward the building where she was employed, she noticed a little girl approaching her from the opposite direction and walking happily along toward her own destination.

Suddenly, the student noticed, the child stopped and turned round, and began stamping upon something on the sidewalk. Puzzled, the student of Christian Science quickened her own footsteps, hurrying to reach the child and see what was causing her this great concern and interfering with her progress down the street. As she approached, the student was amused to see that the object of which the little child was so strenuously attempting to rid herself was her own shadow. Instead of continuing on her way facing the sun, the child had turned her back on the sun, and had then discovered the shadow of which she would have been unaware had she continued to go forward.

Smiling over the incident, yet thinking of the profound spiritual lesson it contained, the student proceeded on her own way. She thought of how many times we delay reaching our goal, spiritual understanding, because, mentally turning away from God, we cease to go forward, and then strive desperately to rid ourselves of the attendant false beliefs which Mrs. Eddy designates in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 418) as "waking dream-shadows, dark images of mortal thought, which flee before the light of Truth."

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