Christian Science, its movement, and its Leader stride on. In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany," Mary Baker Eddy writes, "We thank the Giver of all good for the marvellous speed of the chariot-wheels of Truth and for the steadfast, calm coherence in the ranks of Christian Science."My., p. 127; No human pen or power fosters the spiritual impulsion of this forward march; no human pen or power can stop it. Its impetus is incorporeal, divine, as compelling as the coming of the daylight, yet as silent as the night.
Christian Science, its movement, and its Leader are divinely ordained, sustained, and protected. They sprang from Spirit and demonstrate the omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience of Spirit. Hence their vitality and permanence.
Prophecy as understood in Christian Science is the discernment of spiritual reality and its inevitable fulfillment in human experience. The thread of prophecy gleams in the first chapter of Genesis where it is affirmed that God created man in His own image, male and female, and commanded him to replenish and subdue the earth. It runs through the Old Testament. It shines resplendent in the earthly life of Christ Jesus, the masculine representative of Truth. It glows in the book of Revelation. And, as this series of articles has indicated, it comes to glorious fulfillment in the advent of Mrs. Eddy, who, in her fulfillment of prophecy, typifies the spiritual idea symbolized by the woman in the twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse.
