Editorial February 26, 1979 Issue

For wider horizons

Geoffrey J. Barratt

Item: At ground level the horizon is about 2.3 miles away.
Item: Flying at 35,000 feet, one can see approximately 230 miles in any direction.
Item: If you want a more spectacular cityscape, move to a higher floor.

To enjoy a longer spiritual horizon, go higher spiritually. Don't be altogether satisfied with your present altitude of thought regardless of how content you've been with what you've seen from that level, or how promising its outlook.

For sure, anyone willing to follow the upward indicators of Christian Science can take a higher vantage point. Science shows that the spiritual viewpoint of a mortal is necessarily limited. To think of man as physical and flawed takes a very short view and a very low-level perspective—in fact, it's essentially mistaken. While identifying ourselves as mortal beings, we'll have at best but a minute view of spiritual reality, as though seen down a very thin tube. The scientific insights of the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy make plain the possibilities of gaining a more spiritually elevated sense of God and man.

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