Do we as Christian Scientists place due estimate upon our privileges? If we do, we should never for a single moment become discouraged. We are engaged in a grand and noble work, the work of leading mankind out of the darkness of woful conditions and wrong conceptions,—out of the "slough of despond" which would hold them in bondage to the law of sin, sickness and death,—into the glorious Light which comes from an understanding and demonstration of divine Truth.
Could there be a grander work? It is the only work worthy the name. We are thus living not for ourselves only, not for our own selfish advancement, but for our fellow mortals. Thus living we are obeying the great commandments to love God and the neighbor. This work is from the mighty standpoint of Principle, not person. We cripple our ability to love God and the neighbor in the measure in which we wrap our conceptions, and consequently our work, about with the graveclothes of personality.
As we work from the plane of God as universal, uniacting, uniform, unipotent Principle and man as the uni-idea of that Principle, we are working certainly, intelligently and with increasingly good results. This is our goal. That we have only reached the infantile steps is no evidence that we may not attain to the full stature of mature manhood. On the contrary, the fact that as infants we can demonstrate an infantile portion of divine Principle, is our assurance that we shall be able to demonstrate more and more as we prove ourselves more and more worthy.
