Article March 21, 1970 Issue

Landmarks—True and False

ELOISE PATTILLO HENDRICK

Right landmarks are essential to anyone with a purpose, whether he is traveling or just carrying out his daily work. They save him from haphazard drifting. If the purpose is progress and spiritual growth, one does well to consider that there are certain landmarks that will guide him correctly at all times.

To the Christian Scientist, the purpose of his being is to prove his real identity as the perfect child of God. His destination is the full realization that man's true dwelling place here and now is the kingdom of heaven. His starting point for every right desire, every prayer, every undertaking, is the fundamental teaching of Christian Science that God is omnipresent and omnipotent Mind, divine Love, perfect Life, and that man is the eternal expression of God's perfection.

What are some of the landmarks, true and false, along the way that one needs to recognize and either follow or reject?

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