As of this month's Journal, the twenty-first century is just fourteen years away. In terms of world history that's only the blink of an eye. But experience tells us it is time enough for economies to shift, governments to rise or fall, public consciousness to change.
By the year 2001 will Christian Scientists have drifted, along with so many others before them, into a vaguely "religious" outlook—what Mary Baker Eddy once referred to as "perfunctory religion"? Or will they be found standing for Christian Science and so aiding humanity's advance toward the spiritual era and scientific Christianity?
Why raise such a question? Because awareness of the question helps to ensure our arriving at the right answer.
