THE world of sense is witnessing a mental upheaval. Thought is being resurrected from false material theories, creeds, dogmas and traditions into an actual understanding of the Mind that controlled the man Jesus, enabling its possessors to prove through demonstration, that the day of miracles is not past, but that God's power is "the same yesterday and to-day and forever." What has been called "natural law" is daily being annulled, and an understanding or knowledge of the Christ is being substituted in its place. The leaves from the tree of knowledge of good and evil have already begun to wither, and one by one are falling to the ground.
Everything which "defileth or maketh a lie" is experiencing an unrest. Where seeming harmony once reigned, there is now fear and dismay. Some new and unexpected force is at work in the mental realm. Error feels its silent influence, but cannot place it. It summons its beliefs, theories and opinions and bids them interpret its dream, but all of them fail in utter despair. They have come face to face with a foreign agent whose language they do not comprehend, and one by one they are being taken captive by it and bidden to repent and be baptized in the character or understanding of the Christ, Truth.
In accordance with the Master's promise that he would send us the Comforter, we to-day acknowledge with grateful hearts, the second or final appearing of the Gospel of Truth which heals both sickness and sin, and must lead thought into all Truth; and in making this acknowledgment, we acknowledge also the one chosen of the Father to voice His Word, the Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, who has given to the world in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, a full and complete statement of the Truth, which she has denominated "Christian Science." All nations of the world have heard the proclamation of its Gospel, and we can safely say that it is already recognized as a religion. And being a religion, the one question which the world may rightfully put to us is this; "Is it practical," and our one constant aim must be to demonstrate that it is practical. All who have truly accepted Christian Science know that its claims are capable of proof. This is why the Christian Scientist speaks with conviction. He understands whereof he speaks, and this alone makes one a disciple of Truth. The almost universal belief that the teachings of the Bible are theoretical rather than practical, and that a simple profession of faith constitutes membership in Christ's Church, is repudiated by Christian Science, which takes just the opposite stand, viz., that "faith without works is dead."
