"The eternal mandate"

NANCY JEAN SAVELAND

Sometimes when one has had a healing in Christian Science, he does not realize that greater unfoldment may be in store for him. He may tend to think that a healing or an experience is isolated from other aspects of his life. But, as we learn in Christian Science, spiritual growth is not an isolated experience; it is a development or a constantly growing understanding of God and man and of their relationship as divine Mind and its reflection.

Referring to the spiritual account of creation, which says that God created "every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew,"^{Gen. 2:5;} Mrs. Eddy makes this statement: "Here is the emphatic declaration that God creates all through Mind, not through matter,—that the plant grows, not because of seed or soil, but because growth is the eternal mandate of Mind."^{Science and Health, p. 520;}

As college students, we are constantly confronted with new experiences. We may encounter problems we have never before faced by ourselves. But every experience improved through the application of Christian Science makes us grow. Our greatest growth results from the concept of God as Mind.

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