A College Student Writes

Christian Science and the Academic Challenge

STEPHEN GOTTSCHALK

The challenges presented to the Christian Scientist entering college are many: right relationships, social adjustments, the demands of academic competition. Perhaps none of these is more pressing, more crucial in terms of the Christian Scientist's spiritual development, than his encounter with a a whole new intellectual world, some aspects of which may initially threaten to overturn his faith in the validity of Christian Science.

This threat need have no effect if the Christian Scientist keeps clearly before his thought some fundamental facts about the right relationship between the academic and the spiritual.

The first of these facts is that there need be no conflict between Christian Science and academic pursuits, it is sometimes assumed that all higher learning represents merely phases of mortal mind, that the various areas of human knowledge must be unlearned before men can begin to demonstrate their spiritual selfhood. No thought can give a greater sense of frustration and futility to the college student than this.

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