Article December 2, 1985 Issue

Learning "the infinite idea"—a never-ending course

MARY LOUISE MOSELEY

On a crowded city bus recently, I was fascinated by the eager conversation of several people nearby, discussing courses they were pursuing after work. Having spent more than half of my life first as a student, then as an employee on high-school and college campuses, I realized what a wonderfully worthwhile endeavor this can be.

Every real student or scholar wishes to master whatever subject he undertakes in order to broaden his outlook and to prove to himself and others that his subject is useful when put into practice. He wants what he learns to enrich his own experience and that of others.

Students of Christian Science find endless involvement in the pursuit of spiritual truth concerning every phase of their experience. Mrs. Eddy assures the student: "The admission to one's self that man is God's own likeness sets man free to master the infinite idea." ^{ Science and Health, p. 90.} This is an unending course of study—one rich in understanding, scientific in unfailing proof, benefiting one's home, career, family, church experience, and every other association.