In the Sept. Christian Science Journal, I noticed particularly the article Teachers of Metaphysics. In that, Christian Science and its founder were given the exaltation they deserve. This Science, in its completeness, is the fulfillment of the prophecy: "Behold I work a work in your day; a marvellous work, and a wonder, in which ye will in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you."
This messenger must be God-sent. How can it be otherwise, considering the work she has already done, and her experience in being brought to it? Suddenly struck down to the earth, the power of God was seen in raising her as suddenly up,—to the astonishment of her pastor and physician; and her answer to the latter, when he said: Let me know how you cured yourself, and I will never administer another drug." "I cannot do it now," was the reply, "but I will reveal it to the world sometime in the future;" and she has done so by her three years' retirement, alone with God, that she might have power to breathe His Life and Light to the dying human race; then going forth to show the practical fruits of what she had sought and received, in healing the sick and preaching the Word,—thus, finally revealing Life to the world; then publishing her text-book; establishing her college, by permit of the State; in defence of her work arresting a plagiarist of her book, and convicting him before the law; establishing a Journal and Church, as living oracles of her work to the world. What a triumphant career is this for a woman! Can it be anything less than the "tabernacle of God with men,"—the fulfillment of the vision to the lonely Seer on the Isle of Patmos,—the "wonder in heaven," delivering the child which shall rule all nations?
How dare we say to the contrary, that she is God-sent to the world, as much as any character of Sacred Writ? The greatest sin of Christendom to-day, is the denial of God's manifestations in sending forth His chosen ones, as of old. It is practical Atheism. Like the unbelieving Jews, they would shut out all fulfillment of their own prophecies.
