"I Know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth." It was Job who uttered this strong cry of faith at a time when all the testimony of the senses seemed to be in direct opposition to the possibility that the claims of evil could be refuted. He had been pouring forth to his friends a heavy list of woes, when suddenly, in the midst of them, came this change of thought. Surely God had sent His angel with a clear message of truth and love to uplift the sufferer's vision and to prophesy of good to come!
That this prophecy was fulfilled in the life and works of our Master, all Christians know; but only a portion of the Christian world is aware that his works are being repeated to-day, and that the Christ is again with us in deed and in word. The Christ is standing at this "latter day" upon the earth of false desires, false hopes, false motives, false beliefs,—all the falsities that go to make up the materiality that seems to exist around and within us. We see his redeeming work operating in the changing of old beliefs for new and better ones. As the Psalmist wrote: "As a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed." And these changes indicate the passing of the old for the new understanding of God, Life, and man.
The footsteps of Truth have been drawing nearer and nearer down the ages, echoing through the corridors of human thought, resounding over the oceans of human fear and ignorance, over the seething passions of men and the hypocrisies of superficial religious systems. Everywhere humanity is now awakening to listen to these footsteps coming nearer, and lifting heavy eyes to the horizon of thought to see the Christ appear. And those that have clearer vision behold him; for he stands, as in reality he has ever done, dividing "the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament,"—that is, as Mrs. Eddy shows us in her inspired interpretation of the first chapter of Genesis in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," dividing or differentiating between material beliefs and spiritual truths or ideas.
