Jesus once said: "No man having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God." As Christian Scientists we have taken a stand before the world, as the avowed exponents of a religion which claims to set forth the only way into the kingdom of heaven. We declare, privately and publicly, that our lives are our proofs, that we substantiate our claims by demonstration. No body of Christians, past or present, professes to possess so much of Christianity as does this sect to which we belong. Hence we both merit and receive, more than any others, the awful condemnation which is the inevitable result of wrongdoing.
Every student of our College—whether faithless or faithful to its teachings— knows, beyond all doubt, that Christian Science is the straight and narrow way that leads to Eternal Life. As students and practitioners of this Science, then, we have put our bands to the plough; and we understand the meaning of this plough of Truth.
From our first oral lesson, through all succeeding ones, either by tongue or pen, have we been faithfully instructed in the manner of its working. We have been shown how it is to subsoil the whole ground of error, upturning, in its course, every poisonous weed of evil sown in the garden of self. Pride in birth or attainments; envy of others' prosperity; jealousy of the success gained by those more deserving than ourselves; ambition to be known of men; hatred, from its slightest degree, up to its most malicious one; yea, more than all, self-will and self-justification,—these all must be ploughed up, rooted up, and left to perish in the white light of Love. Not a hidden sin, not a lurking vice, can lie so far below the surface as to withstand the upheaval.
