Always add, always proceed; neither stand still nor go back, nor deviate. He that standeth still proceedeth not; he goeth back that continueth not; he deviateth that revolteth."—
In the course of some interesting remarks on the coming "Spiritual Renaissance," Talcott Williams of the Philadelphia Press says: "The material progress and discovery of the past forty years are but the scaffolding which will fall to show that advancing humanity has again erected a temple to the worship of the Spirit"; and upon this same thought, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Rev. Mary Baker Eddy, has truly said that
"New Birth and Immortality," by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy."this age seems reaching out toward the perfect Principle of things, pushing toward perfection in art, inventions, and manufactures. Why, then, should religion be stereotyped, and we not obtain a more perfect and practical Christianity? It will never do to be behind the times in the things that are highest and most essential. Human skill only foreshadows what is soon to be manifested as of divine origin."
One of the most significant things connected with the great Parliament of Religions, held during the year of the Columbian Exposition in the city of Chicago, was the character of the metaphysical motto chosen as the best expression of the aims of that unique and original Congress,— "Not things, but men—Not matter, but Mind." A Christian Scientist would have had a difficult task had he tried to state the ruling thought and aim of the present age in a more scientific and telling way. That the progress of the world has been marvelous during the last thirty or forty years no student of our times will deny. With a rapidity that bids human skepticism and conservatism flee, one marvel after another has forced its way through the dark night of materialism into the general mental and practical acceptance of the race. The most remarkable feature of all the great discoveries and wonders of recent years is the fact that as a whole they tend as type toward the idea of "Men not things, — Mind not matter," and away from physics toward Divine origin, away from organic animal evolution to an immaterial basis for all things.
