Christ Jesus' words "Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom"Luke 12:32; have never been more comforting than today. War, social unrest, blatant sensuality, indifference to religion, seem so widespread and aggressive that it is a real challenge to the Christian thinker to keep his perception of God's kingdom unclouded and his confidence in the power of good undisturbed.
But those who are students of Christian Science can be thankful that because of Mrs. Eddy's clear, spiritual insight the meaning of current unrest can be understood as really the harbinger of better things—the darkness preceding the dawn of a new and finer era. Deep down in human thought the purifying power of Truth is at work stirring up latent hate, self-will, and lust that for centuries have been largely undetected and unopposed. In Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Mrs. Eddy writes: "The muddy river-bed must be stirred in order to purify the stream. In moral chemicalization, when the symptoms of evil, illusion, are aggravated, we may think in our ignorance that the Lord hath wrought an evil; but we ought to know that God's law uncovers so-called sin and its effects, only that Truth may annihilate all sense of evil and all power to sin."Science and Health, p.540;
For over one hundred years Christian Science has been revealing the spiritual nature of reality. Students of this Science have been patiently at work, healing themselves and others of materiality and the sin and disease it brings. This has had a cumulative effect in accelerating the chemicalizing process of Truth acting upon error. The resulting disturbance gives the impression of overwhelming evil, but in belief this evil has always been around, hidden from sight in the depths of subconscious mortal mind. What we are now seeing is the uncovering of error that will lead to its eventual destruction. The serpent, grown into the great red dragon, is thrashing about in its death-throes. The hypnotic power and attraction of evil is being exposed by the clear white light of Truth, and evil is fighting its inevitable extinction. We read in the book of Revelation, "The great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him."Rev. 12:9;
