Editorial July 30, 1949 Issue

THE HIGH GOAL

George Channing

Attainment of an objective depends in large measure upon clarity and definiteness as to what the objective is. Uncertainty and misapprehension open the way to defeat—to the seeking of the wrong thing and therefore the failure to attain anything. It is impossible to seek the right thing and fail.

The right thing is spiritual consciousness. It awaits anyone unfailingly who loves it enough to seek it as his one objective. It comes on call, through prayer and watchfulness. and displaces mortal mind and its dream of discord. But the call must be sincere, a call coming out of a single desire for its fulfillment.

Mary Baker Eddy often states the power which accompanies the clarity of purpose demanded by Christian Science. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" she writes, for instance, of herself (p. 426), "The discoverer of Christian Science finds the path less difficult when she has the high goal always before her thoughts, than when she counts her footsteps in endeavoring to reach it."

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