Editorial February 12, 1955 Issue

STEPS OF PROGRESS

Helen Wood Bauman

The worldly-minded always reason that progress must be expressed in terms of material advantage. Consequently, they believe that men must labor for a greater development of material power with which to break down the limitations that matter imposes. Not so did our Master, Christ Jesus, proceed. He labored to free humanity from enslavement to matter and its laws through the true knowledge of God and man.

We cannot ignore the results of Jesus' spiritual method. He stilled the storm, moved himself instantly from one place to another, changed water into wine, and destroyed sin, disease, and death—things which natural science with all its inventions cannot do today. Finally Jesus rose above mortal sight to the heaven of Spirit, whose presence he preached, and he was seen no more. He left the message that we should do the works that he did, and even greater ones.

It is plain that the Master did not reason from the evidence of the corporeal senses. He rejected that evidence and looked beyond it to the presence of a great universal, unifying law—the will of God, which makes harmony the fact of being.

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