For so long, people searched the face of the sky, gazed across the surface of the sea, and yet often misinterpreted what was seen. The sun seemed to move around the earth, the earth seemed flat. Although astute thinkers as early as the fifth and third centuries B.C. countered these spurious notions, it was essential that a far wider recognition of the correct facts be established before humanity could break free of those self-imposed limitations. And courageous individuals were needed to lead the way as the new possibilities emerged. In every area where human progress has been necessary, the call for leadership has come to those with initiative and a forthright willingness to take responsibility for their own thinking and actions—it has come to people of vision and explorers, like da Vinci and Galileo, Columbus and Magellan.
Today, the Science of Christianity offers a new perspective of reality—radically different in scope and purpose from traditional, material views. Divine Science asserts that life is actually spiritual, that matter is not the concomitant of man's true existence. And the demonstration of this Science for the benefit of humanity requires today its own explorers with clear spiritual vision. Men and women who are glimpsing the magnificence of God's all-power, who have felt the redeeming touch of Christ, Truth, are being called to take the spiritual initiative.
Students of Christian Science challenge age-old misconceptions of the nature of reality and being. Their work in healing sickness and sin through prayer, through scientific recognition of man's oneness with God, directly counters the variant false beliefs of physical finity and mortality. As this spiritual progress goes forward, all mankind receives the blessing.
