For about four years I have been earnestly trying to climb the ladder of Truth. I confess many times it has seemed hard and I remained on one round a long time, being often obliged to do my work over again, perfecting the mistakes, only to know God better. Trials would beset my pathway that at that time seemed hard and impassable. But now through my better understanding I see they were "Proofs of Gods care" (Science and Health). Why? Because I was in the midst of my problem and the difficulty had to be surmounted before its solution could be attained. One by one I am trying to overcome these trials or errors by the knowledge of Good overruling evil and then knowing its nothingness, it having no part with goodness, but being the direct opposite.
The claims of error, in my early experience, would appear in the form of sickness, not so much in myself as in members of my family. Then the sense of fear would come up, or putting it better, I would let go of Good and the mortal sense would say, Now you will be obliged to do more than trust God; now you will have to resort to material aid. Then was the time when I had to stand alone with God. It was a case of working out my own salvation. I looked back, but there was no place to go. I had been master of error in a few cases and it simply meant that I must be master in many, and to reach this end I must go on and know the Allness of God. I soon recognized that I could only lift myself to the extent that I put my understanding of God into daily use. looking for Good, trying to find Good, and trying to know man as Godlike.
Dear reader, look Godward, do not grovel in the mortal earth, "where moth and rust doth corrupt," nor wander about in the valley of ignorance and think yourself on the mountain-top; but find God, the Truth, the Principle of all Life and Good. But in order to find God we must be willing to take the first step, and after that the second step, and so on to eternal harmony. Each day must find us farther than the day before. In our textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" by Mary Baker G. Eddy, p. 150, we read of "the ever-agitated but healthful waters of Truth." If we are conscientious, Truth urges us on, purifies us as we go, does not permit us to stagnate.
