"We travel to arrive"! These challenging words are from a poem "Perspective" by Godfrey John which appeared in The Christian Science Monitor some years ago. They spell unswerving purpose and a goal never out of sight.
Mrs. Eddy writes of the ways of mortality under the marginal heading "Zigzag course" in Science and Health: "Being in sympathy with matter, the worldly man is at the beck and call of error, and will be attracted thitherward. He is like a traveller going westward for a pleasure-trip. The company is alluring and the pleasures exciting. After following the sun for six days, he turns east on the seventh, satisfied if he can only imagine himself drifting in the right direction." Science and Health, p. 21;
Elsewhere Mrs. Eddy writes, "He is bravely brave who dares at this date refute the evidence of material sense with the facts of Science, and will arrive at the true status of man because of it." Miscellaneous Writings, p. 183;
