Article February 12, 1955 Issue

"FOOTSTEPS LEADING TO PERFECTION"

GERTRUDE DURR CALVERT

The need for taking the right human footsteps in certain circumstances is generally acknowledged. To Christian Scientists, however, the term human footsteps has come to have a deeper meaning than the ordinary use of these words.

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, uses the expression human footsteps only once in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." She writes on pages 253 and 254, "The divine demand, 'Be ye therefore perfect,' is scientific, and the human footsteps leading to perfection are indispensable."

Many times, in endeavoring to accomplish something, we are tempted to say, "Well, I have taken all the human footsteps." How many can truthfully say, "I have taken all the footsteps leading to perfection"?

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