At the dawn of the twentieth century Mrs. Eddy penned a poem to "The New Century." She wrote:
Thou God-crowned, patient century,
Thine hour hath come! Eternity
Draws nigh—and, beckoning from above,
One hundred years, aflame with Love,
Again shall bid old earth good-by—
And, lo, the light! far heaven is nigh!
New themes seraphic, Life divine,
And bliss that wipes the tears of time
Away, will enter, when they may,
And bask in one eternal day.Poems, p. 22;
Certainly the twentieth century has brought "new themes" amid accelerating technological change. The age in which we live has been likened to a new Renaissance, so profound is the change going on in human thinking and activity. Traditional ways and old attitudes are everywhere being questioned. Scientific and spiritual vitality continues to push back the horizons of mankind and of the universe itself.
