Much has been written during the latter half of the century now drawing to its end concerning the second advent of the Messiah. As early as 1845, certain close Bible students predicted that in 1866 "the end" would come. Since then there has come to be a widespread conviction among the Anglo-Saxon race that following Easter of the present year there would come such an awakening among Christians as clearly to indicate the beginning of a new era—the appointed time of Restoration, when Christ's reign is to become universally acknowledged.
Coincident with this growing conviction, however, are "signs of the times," concerning which as little note is being taken as was made of the incidents surrounding the advent of the Man of Bethlehem birth. Paramount among these tokens of hope is the fact that we have in these dates important data relating to Christian Science. We are entering upon the thirty-third year of the ministry of Christian Science, and its correspondence to the year of Jesus' ministry, which gave to the Master a more world-wide renown than all previous years, is significant.
Christian Scientists hold that Christ's re-appearing, as announced in the twelfth chapter of Revelation, was heralded to waiting Christendom by the discovery of the Science of Man, or Christian Science, in 1866, by Rev. Mary Baker Eddy. Mrs. Eddy was at that time a devout Christian, and also a physician.
