A FEW generations ago the cry, "Go west, young man, and grow up with the country," had great power to move men out of the old ruts and impel them to seek fortune and happiness in newer lands. Out where the frontier marked the limit of ordered government and the beginning of unsettled regions, there were fresh opportunities and high adventure to be had. If the old life had been poor, limited, disappointing, the frontier offered a new start, a wider, freer life, where the past might be forgotten and the future found full of promise.

Young hearts thrill at this thought of frontier life! And many young people today who have felt themselves helpless victims of depression and limiting economic conditions, would gladly embrace the opportunities which the frontier afforded their ancestors. Today, however, those opportunities are closed, for the lands are mostly settled.

But a spiritual land has opened up, and the present generation may actually be far more abundantly blessed than previous ones, for Christian Science has come to reveal that here and now there are resources of Mind so vast that neither this generation nor unnumbered others will be able to exhaust their possibilities for the achievement of happiness and higher, fuller living. In "Christian Healing" (p. 11) Mrs. Eddy thus describes the change which is going on: "We are in the midst of a revolution; physics are yielding slowly to metaphysics; mortal mind rebels at its own boundaries; weary of matter, it would catch the meaning of Spirit."

God, Spirit, is the originating and sustaining cause of man's being. All that is real is in God, good, and all proceeds from Him. Looking into matter for health, happiness, and opportunity, men find only disappointment, dullness, and limitation, whereas God's provision for our well-being is unchanging. His loving abundance is untouched by financial upheavals or what are termed business cycles. How greatly men need to rouse themselves from the spell of material beliefs! How valiantly they need to break up the old mental habit of allowing their concept of life to be dominated by matter, time, and place!

Christian Science teaches that we are never to believe ourselves limited by circumstances. Joseph, sold as a slave into Egypt by his older brothers, may be considered a fit symbol of the present generation of young people, who seem to be bound and limited by the mistakes, selfishness, and lack of vision of older generations. But "the Lord was with Joseph," and this was undoubtedly because Joseph was consciously with the Lord, loving and serving the purpose of good. Therefore, slavery could not limit Joseph's usefulness and success; and he was a prosperous man. Moreover, his prosperity overflowed, as it were, and enriched others, for it is recorded that "the Lord blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field." Joseph evidently refused to think of himself as robbed, enslaved, or helpless.

That the same divine Principle is operative now as in Joseph's time was proved in the case of a young woman, a member of a Christian Science Sunday School, who seemed to be bound and limited by conditions of physical discord and lack of employment. After struggling for some time with these conditions, but without success, she was aroused to the need for more earnest study. She set to work with the Lesson-Sermon in the Christian Science Quarterly, and studied far into the night. Her study so dispelled the darkness of material sense that she awakened the next morning enlightened and healed. Soon afterward she found a muchneeded position. Thus she saw the mortal mind frontiers of health and supply moved away by the power of spiritual thinking. She proved that abundance need not wait for times to change or for material prosperity to return. In order that we may be healthy, happy, and successful we must be courageous, obedient, and spiritually masterful. Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 494), "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."

It is commonly believed that gainful employment comes from without; that it is a position, or job, or business which someone else brings to us—or, unhappily, withholds. In bondage to this belief many young people, and adults as well, have fallen into idleness and indifference, waiting, like Micawber, "for something to turn up." They are all too ready to blame others for their misfortunes. But the man of God's creating is the expression of joyous spiritual dominion, and he finds within his own godly self the understanding and inspiration of all right ideas and the power of expressing them. On this basis the Christian Scientist finds that his reflection of divine intelligence, power, and Love satisfies every desire of his nature. He is clothed, fed, protected, and sustained by the spiritual law of his being, which he delights to obey. He is perpetually employed by good and in good. His reward is abundant, and his progress certain. He is never in doubt; never lacks, is never weak, sick, or depressed; he acknowledges no limits of time or place.

Young people and others may now expand their frontiers. They may refuse to be bound by materiality, and may begin to fulfill in present experience God's promise to the Israelites, "And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey." they may find this land, and prove it to be a haven of health, safety, satisfaction, and plenty.