IN her article "Youth and Young Manhood," Mrs. Eddy writes, "Dear reader, right thinking, right feeling, and right acting—honesty, purity, unselfishness—in youth tend to success, intellectuality, and happiness in manhood" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 274).
It is significant that our Leader lists intellectuality along with success and happiness as one of the rewards of righteousness. Obviously this cannot refer to the arid and arrogant intellectualism which opposes itself to spirituality. It must be consonant with the humility, the love, and the childlikeness which alone can drink in the great truths of spiritual revelation and redemption.
What sort of intellectuality, then, can the Christian Scientist expect to demonstrate as an element in his scientific Christian discipleship? This is not an academic question. It bears directly and vitally on our individual salvation and on the appearing of the kingdom of God in every area of human experience.
