Article May 22, 1943 Issue

Progress

JAMES MONTGOMERIE

We are living in an age which has frequently been acclaimed by many as one of progress, and certainly much improvement has been achieved in methods of government, in education, and by numberless mechanical inventions which have secured a better, more refined standard of life. Everyday living has become less tedious and toilsome, and an increasing amount of leisure was, until the outbreak of the war, permitted to many who formerly had been deprived of it.

But despite all that has been accomplished for the betterment of living conditions, we find ourselves in a global war, in which aggressor nations are seeking to impose their will on others by ruthless armed force. It is plain, then, that progress, as it is generally conceived of, has proved insufficient to satisfy men's deeper needs, and it accordingly becomes natural to ask, How shall true progress be defined? Of what does it consist? To these questions Christian Science supplies an answer.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes on page 170 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Spiritual causation is the one question to be considered, for more than all others spiritual causation relates to human progress;" and on page 547 she further emphasizes this thought: "The true theory of the universe, including man, is not in material history but in spiritual development. Inspired thought relinquishes a material, sensual, and mortal theory of the universe, and adopts the spiritual and immortal."

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