Who is going to guide the nations of today out of the wilderness of sin, sickness, want, depression, and chaos into which they seem to have fallen? Mary Baker Eddy, the Leader of the Christian Science movement, points the way to the answer when she writes (Message to The Mother Church for 1902, p. 4), "I again repeat, Follow your Leader, only so far as she follows Christ."
It is evident, therefore, that the true guide of mankind is not a person, but the Christ, Truth, the power and presence of God, the Saviour of the world, as revealed in Christian Science. And Christian Scientists can show mankind the way out of this wilderness by the demonstration of the truth in their daily lives. This is a great responsibility and an opportunity.
Even the most lowly individual who retires to the closet of prayer, inspired by the revelation and unfoldment of Christian Science, becomes a mighty agent for Christ's guidance and aids in forwarding the freedom of mankind from the bondage of materiality. Our Leader says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 189), "When, as little children, we are receptive, become willing to accept the divine Principle and rule of being, as unfolded in divine Science, the interpretation therein will be found to be the Comforter that leadeth into all truth."
