WE stand on the threshold of the twentieth century, a century which is universally expected to fulfil the longings and prayers of the ages. It is a significant fact, that while there is the widest possible difference of opinion as to what is needed to redeem the race from sin, sickness, misery, and discontent, there is a widespread hope of a redemption therefrom, possibly during the next hundred years.
The history of the last century is a record of the gradual shifting of human thought from a material to a spiritual basis. The greater part of the race still rests on the old material basis of belief, millions are in various transitional stages, and a few have reached the Rock of Ages, Spirit.
Seth Low says, "I should say that the trend of the century has been to a great increase of knowledge, which has been found to be, as of old, the knowledge of good and evil." This comment is true as regards the greater part of the century's accumulation of knowledge, for in almost eery department of research, the threads of inquiry have led back to the Adam dream of intelligence in matter. Above all the confusion of error, however. Truth raised her voice, and Christian Science.—the knowledge of Good and the denial of evil.—was made known toward the end of the century.
