Vogue, a widely circulated magazine, commented: "Everywhere there are signs of spiritual hunger. Christian rock stars top the charts. Church socials draw crowds of formerly swinging singles. TV evangelists promise direct-mail salvation. Psychiatrists locate God in the unconscious. And people are still meditating. We want moral guidelines, a hedge against Armageddon, a renewed faith in love, a value beyond success.... As we go slouching toward the year 2000, we long to connect to a power greater than ourselves."
As these words indicate, mankind is increasingly hungry for spiritual truth, for something more stable and satisfying than matter and personality. As questions about nuclear weapons mount, as pressures in an already too rapidly moving scene increase, mankind is haunted by unanswered questions about Armageddon, about the possible final conflict between good and evil. And, as has usually been the case in history, people turn to God when all else appears unsettling and troubled and without visible answers.
What answers does Christian Science offer to spiritual hunger? Christian Science offers a practical understanding of God, a reinstatement of the method Christ Jesus used in his marvelous healing work. The teachings of this Science are most practical for meeting mankind's spiritual hunger because they can be proved in everyday experience.
