Article July 22, 1939 Issue

Progress

JOHN S. SAMMONS

Christian Science reveals the truth about progress and shows how to demonstrate it. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, has this to say about progress (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 181): "Progress is spiritual. Progress is the maturing conception of divine Love; it demonstrates the scientific, sinless life of man and mortal's painless departure from matter to Spirit, not through death, but through the true idea of Life,—and Life not in matter but in Mind."

In the light of Christian Science, progress is of special significance to men desirous of advancing themselves beyond the belief of mortality to the spiritual understanding of Life as God. That which is of God is universal in its manifestation; hence progress, as "the maturing conception of divine Love," is everywhere available for all. There may be many differing human concepts of progress, but it is the truth that "progress is spiritual" with which students of Christian Science need concern themselves, in order that progress may be realized.

Progress is defined, in part, as "the action or process of advancing or improving by marked stages or degrees." This definition obviously pertains to the human sense of progress, since man in the image and likeness of God forever exists at the point of spiritual perfection, coexisting with and reflecting divine Truth, Life, and Love. The progressive unfoldment in human consciousness of this spiritual fact or truth about the perfection of God and man is seen humanly as a gradual betterment in experience. Human progression patterns spiritual revelation.

Send a comment to the editors

We'd love to hear from you!

Easily submit your testimonies, articles, and poems online.

Submit

Progress

We'd love to hear from you!

Sign up for unlimited access