Article January 28, 1956 Issue

PRESSING ON

ROBERT JOHN ROBERTS

Brethren , I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:13, 14). Christian Science makes it possible for mankind to reach this mark—the demonstration in individual experience of the true or spiritual sense of life, which Christ Jesus exemplified so perfectly in his short earthly experience.

Could we adopt a more worthy aim in life or seek a more commendable goal? To press toward the understanding of God, which enables us to bless mankind by healing and redeeming it through the all-power of divine Love, is to reach out for a prize that is surely beyond price.

No satisfaction or joy is comparable to that experienced when we exercise the spiritual ability to free our fellow men from the snares and troubles of so-called material existence. To gain this ability, however, even in small measure, we must overcome in our own consciousness belief in the reality of evil, for the power of divine Mind can be expressed in no way other than through true knowing—the knowing that God is good and is All. We must meet the necessity of destroying through spiritual understanding the fears and doubts arising from the false belief that man is a material entity separate from God.

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