The following statement made by the Hon. Charles Carrol Bonney, president of the World's Congress Auxiliary, in regard to the Christian Science movement and cited by Mary Baker Eddy in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 312) is most significant: "'No more striking manifestation of the interposition of divine Providence in human affairs has come in recent years, than that shown in the raising up of the body of people known as Christian Scientists, who are called to declare the real harmony between religion and Science, and to restore the waning faith of many in the verities of the sacred Scriptures.'"
That which was plainly evident in 1893 has gone on developing and unfolding, until Christian Science has spread over almost the entire earth. Through its teachings countless numbers of people in many nations have been taught to understand God and to prove that His ever-presence is a living power, available to all who understand Him. It is being realized that an unusual spiritual awakening is taking place on the part of humanity.
Now, when such an awakening has come in any age it has always been through some great leader. For centuries the civilized world has thought of Moses as the great Hebrew leader, prophet, and lawgiver; as the inspiring moral teacher in the history of the Israelites. And he is unquestionably a personage of unique prominence in their history. It has been said of Moses that he was led into a closer communion with the invisible world than was vouchsafed to any other, as recorded in the Old Testament. To him divine revelation was made more clear than to others of his time. And in reviewing his work as a leader and lawgiver, we perceive that his work helped to prepare the way for the coming of the Master, Christ Jesus.
