It is natural that we should expect Christian Science to be practical and helpful in all phases of our maturing experience. Allegiance to its teachings will prepare one unerringly for important opportunities both within and beyond the college gates, opportunities awaiting those equipped to fulfill them. Mary Baker Eddy's farseeing provision for Christian Science college organizations in the Manual of The Mother Church (Art. XXIII, Sect. 8) offers the love and protection of The Mother Church, which is always all-encompassing.
In college life there is a variety of beckoning roads, many of them inviting, some intensely so. And perhaps most important of all is the ultimate vista that college increasingly presents: promise of a useful, satisfying career, helpful to our fellow men in some way and in worth-while degree.
All of us are crusaders at heart. Even the most conventional and conservative, judged according to outward appearance, has within him the spark of a crusader. Why? Because of instinctive desire, inner necessity to see things better than they are, to improve thestatus quo. This inner compulsion is really born of a certain spiritual intuition that only good is true. Some are unconscious of that feeling, or at least un-analytical, and would even be incredulous if represented as being crusaders. They feel they are doubtful of what could be accomplished, at least based on present effort. This is, in fact, really the incredulity and fear of mortal mind, resisting the very thing that can save it from itself we are naturally liberal, confident in the triumph of good, except when fear wells up in terms of some episode which, if taken at face value, would convince one of the activity of evil. Judged by surface appearances and the testimony of the five personal senses, there frequently seems to be no other conclusion one can reach. Incidentally, that is the basic reason for distilleries. In the inner anguish and rebellion against the intrusion and seeming triumph of evil in life, mankind seeks in many devious ways for "escape," even drugging and drinking itself into momentary oblivion.
