Humanity needs intelligent direction. Great mental activity is taking place in the world as political, economic, and material shackles are giving way to enlightened thought. The tendency of released thought is to run wild, as a colt does when let out to pasture in the spring of the year. Mary Baker Eddy speaks of this tendency in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" where she discusses the emergence of mortals from a material life basis. She says (p. 552), "But thought, loosened from a material basis but not yet instructed by Science, may become wild with freedom and so be self-contradictory."
The world is in such a state now, with some emergent nations demanding freedom but imposing tyranny, desiring order but flouting law, hoping for progress but resisting aid, wanting to be let alone but meddling with the affairs of others.
What is needed is moral and spiritual direction. Without it human thought degenerates into dangerous and destructive moods. The most constructive leaders in history's record have been those who acknowledged God and listened for His directives. The Scriptures tell us of such leaders—patriarchs and prophets—who heard God's voice and persuaded men to ways of intelligence, love, justice, integrity, and wisdom.
