The theory of evolution has been quite generally accepted, judging from the quantity of literature supporting it. Human thought pauses, however, puzzled in its effort to find perfect order and development in matter, and confesses to failure in locating the "missing link" which would finally unite man to the material atom. There is always hope for thought that is searching: it may eventually arrive at foundational facts.
The materialism of this age holds so persistently to material causation, in spite of inability to proceed, that it might provoke inquiry as to what hinders perfect conclusions. Can it be that an angel of the Lord guards the way, in order that the modern Balaams may not go to the extent of pronouncing finally against the fact that man and the universe are evolved from Spirit? Blind eyes must at last open to the reason why success does not crown efforts to find life and law in matter. Nor should inquiry cease because interpretations on this basis are inadequate to explain creation. The universe still exists, ever demanding that it be understood, beckoning onward and upward the searcher after Truth.
Through the teachings of Christian Science an entirely opposite view of evolution is presented, and it has awakened and challenged thought to approach the subject of causation from a distinctly spiritual standpoint. It declares uncompromisingly that Spirit, Mind, or God is "the only Cause and Creator." Just here the question may arise, Can human sense reach such spiritual conclusions and arrive at truth? There is Scriptural evidence that it may, if thought is sufficiently separated from materiality to discern spiritual truths. When, however, it reaches this purity, consciousness leaves the plane of theory, and its insight is termed revelation. The Scriptures, which contain the records of inspiration, show that revelation is rare and very precious; that it contradicts the ways of mortals, and appears after a period of darkness from which the human turns, in its despair, to the divine for help. Revelation is the love of God answering man through spiritual consciousness, Christian Science. It is always from above,—received at the submit of exalted thought and imparted only to those who have supreme love for God and man. It becomes general and universal only as spiritual leaders are recognized, and their divine message accepted as the guide and counselor.
