IT is conceded that we live in a thought world. Pure and holy thoughts have their abode in quiet and safe resting places and beside still waters; the atmosphere of good is their plane of action and their home. Conventional materialism furnishes no encouragement to earnest longings and spiritual aspirations; nor does it offer them a sanctuary. Tired of error, every mortal will sooner or later hear and heed the call of Spirit, and set about seeking the true destination, the city with foundations.
A city implies a citizenship which not only owes allegiance to a government, but is, as well, entitled to reciprocal protection from it. The city worthy of man's whole allegiance, and able to provide complete safety for his citizenship, must be "a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God," eternal divine Mind. Through Christian Science the understanding of the perfection and holiness of God, Spirit, has come to this age as never before, confirming the Scriptures and elucidating the fact, through demonstrable rules, that spiritual consciousness is this city and is to be sought and found through the rejection and destruction of so-called material consciousness. The broadcast influence of erroneous thoughts, both voluntary and involuntary, must be recognized and guarded against, in order to be safe under the shadow of His wings, in the sweet confidence that good alone is power.
In the first century of the Christian era John, the beloved disciple, committed to divine Providence in the Apocalypse his vision of spiritual reality. John saw that God is with men; and he called this revelation "the holy city, new Jerusalem." He saw also the illusion of life in matter; and he saw it pass away. Withstanding every assault of evil to destroy them, the inspired words of John's revelation have been preserved by God through His true followers in every period of the Christian era down to our own blest time. Now, again, Truth bears witness through Christian Science to the perfect, spiritual universe here and now present.
