Article April 13, 1899 Issue

The Coming Race

BY WALDO PONDRAY WARREN.

Those who are familiar with Bulwer Lytton's famous tale of "The Coming Race," in which he pictures an ideal state in human progress, can readily appreciate how far his ideal is surpassed by every-day life in Christian Science.

Our "vril" is a thought, whose fleet wings are the ever-presence of Mind, whose power is the omnipotence of Good. It can destroy only the evil, and rules by Love instead of fear. Our perpetual light is not from the earth's internal heat, but is the infinite light of Spirit, God, in whom is no darkness at all. Our tasks are not performed by lifeless automatons aping intelligence, but by the utilization of Omnipotence.

Human wisdom is inadequate to grasp the divine concept. The highest flights of fancy are tame and tasteless in the presence of divine reality. How truly "above all that we can ask or think" is Love "abundantly able to do for us." Man cannot conceive of anythng so grand as the methods of Mind, much less can he improve on God's ways.

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