"Ask yourself: Am I living the life that approaches the supreme good?" writes our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, on page 496 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." It is well to examine our thinking in the light of the ideal this question holds aloft. For in such a life lived we find the answer to another of our Leader's challenges (ibid., p. 257): "Who hath found finite life or love sufficient to meet the demands of human want and woe, — to still the desires, to satisfy the aspirations?"
Today, many young people who have enjoyed the blessing of instruction in a Christian Science Sunday School are seeking the quickening answer to these questions. They know that they will find it in the teachings of Christ Jesus. Many of them have exchanged homes and familiar surroundings for strange provinces, peoples, and conditions, and one of the difficulties in such circumstances is lack of opportunity daily to study the Lesson-Sermon and to devote adequate time to prayer.
Such was the case with one young student newly recruited into the services. Parades early and late, no privacy or quietness in his quarters, and a shyness about reading the Bible and the textbook before strangers of widely differing beliefs, kept him from his accustomed study. Happily he was able to mention the matter to an experienced student who had served through the last war. His advice was as simple as it was inspiring: "Don't worry about lack of opportunity for study. Your job is to do good."
