Century has followed century nineteen times since the man of Nazareth uttered holy words which he prophesied would never pass away. They have hung in the thoughts of men like music of the spheres. They have been heard with awe and reverence, but their vast Science has remained to be discovered in this age.
True prophecy bears the seed of fulfillment which matures in appointed time. Isaiah foretold the coming of Christ Jesus, which occurred about seven hundred years later. The prophecy of the Master to St. John recorded in the twelfth chapter of Revelation augured further coming of the impersonal Christ, Truth, in its full import. The time appointed for this sacred event arrived in the nineteenth century when the Christ Science was revealed.
Someone had to be the agent for this fulfillment of revelation; someone who would be chosen out of all the people on earth and at a time when the passing years would compel men to exchange the material sense of universe for the spiritual idea of creation. Such a consciousness would have to be prepared to listen to God, to hear and understand the wisdom of the eternal, to be able to transcribe the message for all to read, and then to substantiate what was heard by proofs of Christian healing. From the time of the awesome discovery, there could be no turning back, no faltering, no discouragement, no doubting, no evasion of divine demands, no lapse of self requirement to measure up to duties waiting. The messenger could not stop until the journey of delivery to humanity was accomplished so that Truth, forever unchanged, would be learned and lived by all men.
