Article February 22, 1936 Issue

Frontiers

[Written Especially for Young People]

ROBERT S. VAN ATTA

A FEW generations ago the cry, "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country," had great power to move men out of the old ruts and impel them to seek fortune and happiness in newer lands. Out where the frontier marked the limit of ordered government and the beginning of unsettled regions, there were fresh opportunities and high adventure to be had. If the old life had been poor, limited, disappointing, the frontier offered a new start, a wider, freer life, where the past might be forgotten and the future found full of promise.

Young hearts thrill at this thought of frontier life! And many young people today who have felt themselves helpless victims of depression and limiting economic conditions, would gladly embrace the opportunities which the frontier afforded their ancestors. Today, however, those opportunities are closed, for the lands are mostly settled.

But a spiritual land has opened up, and the present generation may actually be far more abundantly blessed than previous ones, for Christian Science has come to reveal that here and now there are resources of Mind so vast that neither this generation nor unnumbered others will be able to exhaust their possibilities for the achievement of happiness and higher, fuller living. In "Christian Healing" (p. 11) Mrs. Eddy thus describes the change which is going on: "We are in the midst of a revolution; physics are yielding slowly to metaphysics; mortal mind rebels at its own boundaries; weary of matter, it would catch the meaning of Spirit."

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