Thinkers and perceptive observers of events concede we live in a period of fundamental revolution and change. Many elements of human life are, they say, in flux: politics, ideologies, medicine, the arts, morality, philosophy, relationships, communications. Why are these times as they are? Because of some random accidental fluctuation in the onflow of human history?
A most Christly and insightful thinker and close follower of Christ Jesus, Mrs. Eddy, writes: "Belief in a material basis, from which may be deduced all rationality, is slowly yielding to the idea of a metaphysical basis, looking away from matter to Mind as the cause of every effect. Materialistic hypotheses challenge metaphysics to meet in final combat. In this revolutionary period, like the shepherd-boy with his sling, woman goes forth to battle with Goliath."Science and Health, p. 268 Because of the finality of the combat, it is probable that the stir has never been so broad or so deep.
It is a privilege for us to live in such times, the era of divine Science, and to witness the yielding of materialistic theories to Christian metaphysics, even though the yielding may seem slow at times. Like all privileges, it has packaged with it obligations and responsibilities for those on the side of metaphysics. Challenges, opportunities, victories, even disappointments, confront us. But even the latter can at least have the virtue of impelling us to do better, to see further and deeper, and to live the divine Life in our own experience to an extent we've never done before.
