Article February 11, 1950 Issue

LET'S PROVE OUR PROGRESS

JOHN NEAL

In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy makes these emphatic statements (p. 233): "Every day makes its demands upon us for higher proofs rather than professions of Christian power. These proofs consist solely in the destruction of sin, sickness, and death by the power of Spirit, as Jesus destroyed them. This is an element of progress, and progress is the law of God, whose law demands of us only what we can certainly fulfil." In seeking to obey these demands, the earnest Christian Scientist strives to realize God's ever-loving protection and to know himself in the way Mrs. Eddy indicates when she says (ibid., p. 470), "Man is the expression of God's being."

A student of Christian Science had experienced for a long time a sense of inferiority, fear, and nervousness, which had made him feel he could not accomplish anything with success.

During many crossings of the Atlantic he had observed that most denominations held services on board ship, but he had never seen a notice of a Christian Science service. He would have liked very much to organize such a service, but had always felt unable to do so. Last summer, however, when he boarded a ship one Friday for another crossing, his thought was perfectly clear about the rightness of his desire. So the first thing he did was to take a definite stand mentally and know the truth that God's ever-present goodness must bring to proper fruition the loyal, active desire for progress.

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