In her article called "The Cry of Christmas-tide," Mary Baker Eddy makes this moving comment: "We are hungry for Love, for the white-winged charity that heals and saves; we are tired of theoretic husks..."Miscellaneous Writings, p. 369. All humanity is, in fact, increasingly tired of such husks. Theorizing about God and straining to have faith in a God who is supposed to coexist mysteriously with a material universe are becoming more and more untenable for thinking people.
Mrs. Eddy saw the discovery of Christian Science as answering this great hunger of mankind. She understood her discovery to be the coming of the Comforter that would bring to the remembrance of humanity the teachings of Christ Jesus and their universal meanings for all ages to come.
And those who have opened their thought to Christian Science have found a clarified and enlarged view of God. It comes to us uncompromised, as fresh and powerful as in the time of the Master. A Bible passage often associated with anticipation of the Messiah expresses one's feelings: "Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them."Isa. 42:9.
