Article June 16, 1945 Issue

The Hour of Triumph

KIMMIS HARTLEY HENDRICK

In the hour of triumph the alert thinker invariably hears the summons of divine Principle for further growth. It tells him that the occasion of victory is never a time for letting down, but rather a time for new consecration, for rededication, for pressing on. It reminds him of the endless way of infinite Life.

Humanly, progress means pressing toward a goal. The true goal as Christian Science makes plain, is apprehension of the allness and oneness of God. From the standpoint of absolute truth, this goal is already and universally attained by reason of the nature of God's supremacy. In truth, therefore, progress means that spiritual reality unfolds itself endlessly, not because it is incomplete, but because infinity is the fact about completeness.

Any worth-while human attainment is really a fuller revelation of reality, of that which is established forever, and forever was. Attainment, rightly viewed, means enlargement of spiritual vision. In its highest sense it indicates, at least in some measure, the eternal fact that progress is perfection's unfoldment, and shows that this fact has to some extent been accepted in place of the belief that progress means starting with little and proceeding to much.

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