Article January 1, 1944 Issue

Wartime Progress

ROY WAYNE CRIPPS

"Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power. These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. This is an element of progress, and progress is the law of God, whose law demands of us only what we can certainly fulfil." So states Mary Baker Eddy, the beloved Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, on page 233 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;" and she further discerningly writes (ibid., p. 306), "Undisturbed amid the jarring testimony of the material senses, Science, still enthroned, is unfolding to mortals the immutable, harmonious, divine Principle,—is unfolding Life and the universe, ever present and eternal."

Obviously, then, true progress being a ceaselessly, forever operating, spiritual law of God eternal Principle, its activity and unfoldment continue irresistibly in wartime and peacetime alike. Those who today recognize, acknowledge, and utilize this divine fact will find their progress untouched and un-retarded by beliefs of loss or retrogression. All such false claims are based upon the supposititious beliefs of material substance and physical existence, which, although seeming real to material sense, are, as Christian Science teaches and proves, but the assumed opposites of real substance and of man's spiritual, indestructible, incorporeal existence as God's reflection.

For men and women in the armed services at home or abroad, in war plants, on the farms, in offices and homes everywhere, yes even in temporarily enemy-occupied countries, does not wartime present opportunities to go forward with spiritual fortitude to higher attainments in the practice and demonstration of Christian Science, wherein alone lie ultimate world salvation and progression? Each one, here and now, may progressively contribute, participate, and serve metaphysically in this fruitful field of scientific Christianity, thereby advancing towards that great day when, as the Bible says, "the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea."

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