Article September 19, 1953 Issue

"HITCH YOUR WAGON TO A STAR"

WILSON B. ADAMS

A speaker once reworded Emerson's oft-quoted admonition, "Hitch your wagon to a star." He said, "Hitch your wagon to a horse," reasoning that this procedure was a much more practical one in getting somewhere than Emerson's idealism.

One who heard this speaker returned home in a state of uneasiness and dissatisfaction, but she could not explain why she should feel that way. She did not realize that her thirst for spiritual inspiration had been left unquenched. Only the material aspect had been presented, and consequently her thought had not been uplifted.

What and where is this star to which we should hitch our wagon? Is it not spiritual consciousness? And is it not within the capacity of each of us, as actually an heir of the one omnipresent, omniscient Father-Mother God, to claim this consciousness? In her book "Unity of Good," after quoting Emerson's words mentioned earlier in this article, Mary Baker Eddy adds (p. 17): "I say, Be allied to the deific power, and all that is good will aid your journey, as the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. (Judges v. 20.) Hourly, in Christian Science, man thus weds himself with God, or rather he ratifies a union predestined from all eternity."

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