Article September 22, 1934 Issue

Progress

DOROTHY DESMOND

A student of Christian Science and a small boy of five were driving along the route to his school one morning when they passed some signboards marked "Danger." "What do the signs say, Mummy?" asked the little fellow, who was just learning to read. "They are marked 'Danger,'" she replied. "Should we pass them?" he asked after a moment's silence.

Seeing that the word had alarmed him vaguely, his mother thought how best she could quiet his fear. Then she said: "Yes. The sign means that it would be dangerous to be disobedient and drive over the spots they mark. There are deep holes there. But you see we can go on without fear when we are obedient." The little boy understood this language and was satisfied, and his mother's thought, too, rested upon it in gratitude.

Only that morning she had seen an apparent necessity for taking certain steps which seemed unprogressive. They were of such a nature as to encroach upon her opportunities to study Christian Science and to pursue her individual activities. Now she saw that Principle would never guide her to take a false or backward step. Whereas the mental road before her had looked full of pitfalls, now, as she worked to clear her thought, she saw that divine Love was opening the way to new visions of accomplishment, and that the law of progress operates eternally to take us safely and surely toward our goal.

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