CHRIST JESUS said, "The kingdom of heaven is like unto leaven, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened." Who does not want more of harmony and dominion in place of discord and subjection? On page 118 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy writes: "Ages pass, but this leaven of Truth is ever at work. It must destroy the entire mass of error, and so be eternally glorified in man's spiritual freedom. In their spiritual significance, Science, Theology, and Medicine are means of divine 'thought, which include spiritual laws emanating from the invisible and infinite power and grace." She capitalizes these three terms, thereby lifting them above their usually accepted sense. Christian Science has a marked influence on the scientific, religious, and medical thought of the day.
Can anyone deny that humanity, as a whole, is bearing intolerable burdens, the nature of which it hardly understands, and from which, through all the centuries, it has proved unable to free itself? Through its wholly spiritual sense of Science, of Deity, and of therapeutics, Christian Science has begun the task of exterminating in human experience the scourge of disease, sin, poverty, dissension, fear, hate, sorrow, and it is destined to complete it.
Human thought is still befogged by materialism, still largely unaware of the truth about God and the one spiritual creation. Though surfeited with material knowledge, it is insufficiently informed concerning basic spiritual facts: hence its suffering and limitation. But this age, more than any other, is the recipient of that gift of gifts—spiritual enlightenment. To individuals in their private lives, and also to the fine men and women who are making sacrifices in order to devote themselves to national and international questions of universal import, Christian Science is bringing vision and encouragement.
