"GROWTH is a word that is used a great deal these days in all sorts of contexts. Those who direct public affairs keep telling us that mankind's utilization of the world's resources must grow if all people are to enjoy freedom from want. Theories and formulas about the economic growth of nations abound. At a more individual level, we are all confronted from time to time with the conviction that we would find human existence easier if our incomes and our prospects grew a little faster.
To such ways of thinking, growing is a process of adding to what we already have, the addition of a little more to a limited quantity. We are tempted to believe that if we had that little more, then tomorrow would be better than today. This is the world's belief about poverty and prosperity, and it claims to be both persuasive and pervasive.
Christian Science teaches that true growth is imperative and that it is spiritual. To those becoming interested in Christian Science the prospect is offered of new and unending views of achievement; to those who have already proved the healing and redemptive power of this Science the opportunity is given to understand and to prove increasingly that growth never flags and is never fitful or faltering.
