DIVINE ADVENTURERS

OLIVE THOMPSON

There are pages of human history—tales of exploration in new lands or over uncharted waters—which few of us can read without feeling a responsive thrill. Vicariously, we may have followed Drake or Balboa or the members of recent polar expeditions, admiring the courage and endurance with which these pioneers faced and overcame obstacles and dangers.

Mary Baker Eddy recognized that those who are studying Christian Science, applying it to the problems which arise, and advancing daily into further understanding of its infinite meanings, are partakers of a form of adventure far surpassing any other human experience. Hence her words in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p.158), "We live in an age of Love's divine adventure to be All-in-all."

What can the adventurer expect to gain who sets forth to prove the teachings of Christian Science, which proclaims the allness of God, Spirit, and denies the validity of matter? The beginner in this study, if he accepts its teachings of the reality of good and the unreality of evil or discord of any sort, finds that he can apply them with immediate results. As he advances, he learns that there are no closed borders or vanishing frontiers in this field, but opportunity for continuous growth as new phases of Truth are revealed to him.

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