Article October 15, 1949 Issue

JOYFUL PROGRESS

BETTIE BOONE

"Love inspires, illumines, designates, and leads the way." So writes Mary Baker Eddy in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 454).

Progress is a factor of immediate interest to each individual. To one at work in an office, progress may mean advancement to a better-paid or more responsible position; to the housewife and mother, progress may signify better management of household affairs and more harmonious and effectual fulfilling of her role in the home; to the scholar, progress may mean the gaining of a higher academic degree and the acquisition of knowledge along lines of a specific interest. To the laborer in field and mine, to the sailor at sea and the airplane pilot, to the professor, the writer, the artist—to all thinking persons, progress is indigenous.

What does Christian Science teach about progress, and what is the rule provided by divine Principle for the solving of the problem of lack of progress or opportunity, or perhaps even of lack of knowing in what direction progress lies? Our Leader writes (ibid., p. 170), "Spiritual causation is the one question to be considered, for more than all others spiritual causation relates to human progress." Let us, then, consider spiritual causation and how it relates to our progress in whatever activity we are engaged. Let us examine causation in the light of the statement that is quoted at the beginning of this article, for it points out that divine Love, reflected in human consciousness, takes an active part.

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