Referring to her reliance upon spiritual guidance, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 347): "The guardians of His presence go before me. I enter the path. It may be smooth, or it may be rugged; but it is always straight and narrow; and if it be uphill all the way, the ascent is easy and the summit can be gained." What comfort and cheer our Leader's words kindle in the hearts of her faithful followers everywhere! What hope and happiness her message brings to those who have labored long and loyally in the Master's vineyard! What an inspiration to all is the assurance, from one who has demonstrated the truth of her own statement, that the pathway is easy and the summit attainable!
The Bible is replete with many striking and conclusive proofs of the triumphs of Truth over the claims of evil. Down through the centuries the words of St. Paul to the Philippians have rung with deep and undeniable sincerity of purpose, "This one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." Never, throughout his Christian ministry, did Paul permit discouragement to dim or dull his buoyant trust in God, good.
In our efforts to progress heavenward, are we today, perhaps, struggling with some apparently pressing and perplexing problem of sickness, sin, sorrow, or lack? Then, let us refuse to be dismayed, and, through earnest, humble prayer to our all-loving loving Father, claim our lawful exemption from doubt and confusion, grief and limitation. So doing, we shall surely witness the removal of every seeming obstacle from the mental highway to health and holiness, for error's threats, bold and boisterous though they may seem to be, can and will be proved to be powerless when faced bravely with the facts of Science. To thought purged of materiality, the sunshine f Truth reveals the mounting footsteps of Spirit's pathway to be peaceful instead of perilous, radiant with promise instead of dark and desolate. Thus, by our calm and clear reflection of the spiritual ideas of confidence and constancy, we may demonstrate that the way upward is not an arduous, impossible task, but rather a vigorous and joy-inspiring conquest over the fraudulent beliefs of fear, failure, and faint-hearted endeavor.
