The last one hundred years have been a period of great advancement, an age of accelerated world progress and innovation. Inventions have shortened both the time and distance of communication. Space exploration shows a breaking down of certain beliefs of physical and intellectual limitations. Industrial development is widely increasing per capita purchasing power. On all sides we clearly see a human world freeing itself from old shackles, rising rapidly above restrictions, and eagerly seeking still wider vision. This accords with the unfoldment of progress described by Ezekiel when he wrote, "The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision."Ezek. 12:23;
Underlying each of these inventions and developments is a dynamic animating cause, for there can be no effect without a cause. If we as individuals are to share in this great advance, we must identify, understand, and utilize the true nature of its cause. Only through such comprehension and subsequent experience can each of us make our contribution and benefit by loosening the fetters that have bound mankind to lack and limitation. It is axiomatic that individual vision precedes and leads to general achievement.
How fortunate are students of Christian Science that Mrs. Eddy, more than a hundred years ago, came to understand through revelation and actual experience that God, Spirit, is the only cause. So important did she consider the understanding of this primal origin of progress that she chose for a Bible Lesson in the Christian Science Quarterly the subject, "God the Only Cause and Creator." Through the study of this lesson twice each year we gain the true and demonstrable explanation of the unique cause from which stem the myriad facets of progress and genuine achievement appearing in this age.
