In "We Knew Mary Baker Eddy," Second Series, one of Mrs. Eddy's students shares the counsel given by our Leader when one of her classes was drawing to a close. This student writes (p. 16): "I remember her statement, "There are no short cuts in Christian Science,' and she said, as I recall, 'I have taken you up into the mount; I have showed you the promised land'— and then she added with finality, but also with infinite tenderness—'but you will have to walk every step of the way to get there.' "
Are we not in a sense Mrs. Eddy's students also, if we are making an earnest study of Christian Science? Does not she teach us through the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," and through all her other writings? Thus she leads us up into the mountain of spiritual apprehension and shows us the promised and longed-for land of true being. We too "have to walk every step of the way to get there."
"All that really exists is the divine Mind and its idea, and in this Mind the entire being is found harmonious and eternal," Mrs. Eddy tells us on page 151 of the Christian Science textbook. Continuing, she says, "The straight and narrow way is to see and acknowledge this fact, yield to this power, and follow the leadings of truth." With every forward step on this "straight and narrow way," some phase of materiality will be overcome, and qualities contrary to the divine being will be wiped out.
