If that stirring admonition enunciated by Christ Jesus centuries ago, "What I say unto you I say unto all, Watch," had been sufficiently understood and heeded by Christendom, the world would doubtless be a far better place in which to live than it appears to be today. There is much significance in the fact that the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, caused the statement to be inscribed across the front cover of the Christian Science Sentinel, as a loving reminder to the readers of that periodical, of a necessary Christian duty.
It is true that, in general, mankind is deeply engrossed in watching, but not the kind of watching to which Jesus referred. Mankind seems ever on the qui vive for material gain of various sorts, and on guard against material losses. Of far greater and more practical benefit, however, is watching for spiritual enlightenment, and guarding against the darkening beliefs that claim to oppose and frustrated its appearing.
Writing of his vision of the fall of Babylon, the prophet Isaiah shows the watchman as saying, "I stand continually upon the watch-tower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights." The true Christian Scientist realizes that he is required to watch as Jesus directed, in order to hasten the final destruction of evil. Two essential points are to be covered in this ennobling work. The watcher must learn to keep guard over his own thinking, and he should strive to be a faithful sentinel in behalf of humanity at large.
