God's kingdom is come. This statement may seem extravagant to one who has not expected an answer to the prayer which he has uttered from his youth, "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven." Yet to the enlightened spiritual thought this is a most practical prayer. Why should one pray for the establishment of God's will on earth if he has no hope of its appearing? To appreciate fully the divine influence of God's will of perpetual good on earth one must understand that God is, that He exists as divine Principle, and that He has proclaimed His kingdom on earth.
Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, saw the scientific import of this prayer and gave to the world her spiritual sense of it in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." The words, "Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven," she interprets as follows (p. 17): "Enable us to know,—as in heaven, so on earth, —God is omnipotent, supreme." Because Mrs. Eddy perceived God's universe as spiritual, she was able to write further of this ideal world in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 217): "True idealism is a divine Science, which combines in logical sequence, nature, reason, and revelation. An effect without a cause is inconceivable; neither philosophy nor reason attempts to find one; but all should conceive and understand that Spirit cannot become less than Spirit; hence that the universe of God is spiritual,—even the ideal world whose cause is the self-created Principle, with which its ideal or phenomenon must correspond in quality and quantity." The Apostle John envisioned this "ideal world" as "a new heaven and a new earth." He recognized God's promise, that He would dwell with men and be their God, and he knew that nothing could enter to prevent such a divinely spiritual accord.
If we would respond to the deific influence and experience its effects in our daily affairs, we must see and acknowledge the perfect government of God today. When God is acknowledged as the divine ruling Principle of our universe, we shall see His heavenly harmony and order expressed in world conditions. Man, consciously abiding with divine Principle, is sheltered and protected from the elements of mortal mind with their attendant beliefs of destruction and disaster.
