How likely is it that we shall, any one of us, accomplish the good results we hope and work for? Of course the answer depends largely on whether our hope is wise or unwise and on our proper use of the right means of accomplishment. We can safely trust our desires to the direction of divine Principle, perfect Love, whose sole purpose for man is fulfillment. In human affairs real good is made evident as we realize that nothing can hide the true and good idea from consciousness awakening to divine reality. Our present task is to understand the present and immense possibilities of man as God's reflection and thus hasten mankind's demonstration of these possibilities.
Mankind has explored little of man's true nature, but that little has given promise of much. It has been the spiritual seer who has acknowledged the infinite capacities of God's noblest creature, man. Material conception has always been too limited and falsely based to be able to understand what the term man really stands for, but human reason and hope and the inevitable results of experience have taught even the most sluggish thinkers something of the larger aspects of true manhood. For instance, who can watch television without recognizing to some extent that yesterday's limitations have yielded to today's intelligence? And where will the end be?
Mary Baker Eddy was a spiritual seer who followed in the steps of the Master, Christ Jesus, and looked for man in the highest estate. Jesus' advice was this (Matt. 5:48): "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." And Mrs. Eddy, in her work "Unity of Good," says (p. 6): "Sooner or later the whole human race will learn that, in proportion as the spotless selfhood of God is understood, human nature will be renovated, and man will receive a higher selfhood, derived from God, and the redemption of mortals from sin, sickness, and death be established on everlasting foundations."
