To consider the destiny of Christian Science is not to think only of the future of a denomination planted in New England in the nineteenth century. The heart of the matter is the destiny of the spiritual truth of God and man that's the foundation of the Church of Christ, Scientist. This truth's destiny is to be established everywhere, for all people and races and nations.
Divine Truth, God, is at the very inmost core of Christian Science. This Science represents God's telling mankind of Himself, in ways that people can understand and prove. We can be as sure of the destiny of Science as we can be of the permanence of Truth. Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, tells us, "Truth is strong with destiny; it takes life profoundly; it measures the infinite against the finite." The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 229-230;
Christian Science helps us escape from the grip of time. It lifts our thought to timeless good. Whenever we think of the future of Christian Science we don't have to count years and calculate memberships. The destiny of Christian Science is to tell all of us what we really are—the alive, vivid, unique idea of divine Life. That destiny isn't something we have to wait for. We don't have to look to calendars and centuries for news of the fulfillment of the destiny of Christian Science. It can be fulfilled in our thought and life right now, in 1979.
