Article February 20, 1965 Issue

"A ladder let down"

LORA C. RATHVON

When Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, instituted class instruction in Christian Science she opened wide an avenue for spiritual growth that should bring untold blessings to sincere and honest students of this vast Science of Life. Of this wonderful opportunity for progress in the things of Spirit, she says in "Retrospection and Introspection" (p. 85), "Of this also rest assured, that books and teaching are but a ladder let down from the heaven of Truth and Love, upon which angelic thoughts ascend and descend, bearing on their pinions of light the Christ-spirit."

The ladder is ready and waiting, laden with heavenly messages, but the partaking of this spiritual bounty is individual demonstration. It is a choice that each one should prayerfully make for himself. There must be an awareness of the priceless opportunity class instruction can offer and a readiness to lay aside everything that might obstruct or hinder this forward step.

Christ Jesus, the great Teacher of Christianity, selected his disciples or students with infinite patience and wisdom. After his experience in the wilderness where he had prayed and fasted forty days and nights and had fearlessly withstood the three temptations of the devil, he began to select them. First he chose four stalwart, eager disciples, fired with the conviction that they had found the promised Messiah.

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