Probably
everyone who has driven an automobile to any considerable extent has at some time, and maybe many times, been confronted by a sign reading, in effect, "Detour ahead! Road dangerous, but passable.
Soon
after taking up the study of Christian Science the student becomes aware that something more exists than what he can see, hear, touch, or smell materially.
In
all her writings Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, points out the absolute necessity for each one to turn his thoughts away from a contemplation of materiality to a higher basis of thought—spiritual ideals.