There is perhaps no subject of more compelling interest than that of progress. In every direction men have striven by ingenuity and invention to improve their modes and methods of living, and this phase of progress has been effected to a remarkable degree within the past quarter of a century.
When we begin the study of Christian Science, however, we soon learn that all which may truly be termed progress is primarily mental in character and is achieved through wise, intelligent, and Christlike thinking; and we also learn that such thinking is the reflection of the Mind which is God. Christian Science proclaims God, Spirit, to be the only Mind, and His ideas to be one with this Mind, inseparable from infinite wisdom, Truth, and Love.
Let us consider the vital importance of this great fact to us individually. Does it not mean, among other things, that through declaring and demonstrating our oneness with infinite intelligence we overcome, put off, the limitations of ignorance, superstition, inability, lack of knowledge? Does it not also mean that we reflect wisdom, intelligence, clear judgment, freedom, and spiritual dominion? Such qualities, constantly expressed and manifested in our daily living, of necessity result in spiritual growth, increased efficiency —in short, true progress.
