Article February 21, 1959 Issue

PROGRESS WITHOUT FLUCTUATION

E. RICHARD VERRILL

Progress is the result of persistent effort toward an honest achievement, the natural effect of earnest, intelligent endeavor. In human affairs, however, progress is often only temporary, since it seems to come and go as a changing pattern of mortal mind, as vacillating good, which may disappear at any time. This fluctuation is characteristic of mortality because it swings like a pendulum between harmony and inharmony, abundance and lack, health and sickness, peace and war, life and death.

In Christian Science we learn that true progress is without fluctuation, ever ascending through the law of God. Mary Baker Eddy states in the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 258), "God expresses in man the infinite idea forever developing itself, broadening and rising higher and higher from a boundless basis."

To human sense, progress and good are capricious. To spiritual sense, progress is the result of the steadfast unfoldment of the law of good. Material progress may suffer reversal. In spiritual progress, there is no backward step. Mrs. Eddy assures us (ibid., p. 74), "In Christian Science there is never a retrograde step, never a return to positions outgrown."

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