Article December 8, 1945 Issue

Steps of Progress

MARY ELIZABETH DAVIS

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy, we read these words (p. 559): "Take divine Science. Read this book from beginning to end. Study it, ponder it. It will be indeed sweet at its first taste, when it heals you; but murmur not over Truth, if you find its digestion bitter." In the book of Isaiah (37:30) is a statement which might be considered a correlative to this quotation: "And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof."

Those who have followed Mrs. Eddy's counsel, who have turned to Christian Science, accepted its teachings and lived them, know that they have been greatly blessed. They have always found, in proportion to their seeking and understanding acceptance of its truths, that for which they have sought—healing, courage, comfort joy. Almost invariably they have found the study of Science and Health absorbing; they have indeed eaten that which "groweth of itself."

What is this which "groweth of itself"? Is it not "the seed within itself," which Mrs. Eddy says "is the pure thought emanating from divine Mind" (Science and Health, p. 508)? She also explains (ibid.), "But the seed is in itself, only as the divine Mind is All and reproduces all—as Mind is the multiplier, and Mind's infinite idea, man and the universe, is the product."

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