As Christian Scientists enter the second century of scientific Christianity, they need to consider what their Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, foresaw for the great movement she founded. In The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany she speaks of her first visit to The Mother Church after its completion, and she says: "The dear members wanted to greet me with escort and the ringing of bells, but I declined and went alone in my carriage to the church, entered it, and knelt in thanks upon the steps of its altar. There the foresplendor of the beginnings of truth fell mysteriously upon my spirit." My., pp. 302, 303;
The light of Truth—reality—had dawned upon Mrs. Eddy's pure thought. The power of divine Mind had given her a foretaste of glories to come. A breaking away of materiality had come to mankind. Because the Christ-spirit has penetrated mortal darkness, the Christian Science movement will increase to humanity as the centuries continue to witness a lessening of the mesmeric interest in matter that hides from men the kingdom of heaven. Our Leader says: "We need much humility, wisdom, and love to perform the functions of foreshadowing and foretasting heaven within us. This glory is molten in the furnace of affliction." p. 303;
When we realize that the movement which reveals universal harmony begins with Mind, God, not with people, and is impelled by Mind, we have courage to face and overcome the world's resistance to God's omnipotent law, Christian Science. We foresee the full victory of Science over the evils that would persecute it and hold back its healing power.
