Editorial December 14, 1918 Issue

Forward Footsteps

Annie M. Knott

We seldom realize the great change which has come over the world's consciousness in the last half century, and even less perhaps do we foresee the greater changes which will inevitably come in the next fifty years. The awakening of men and nations from the long dream of sensuous slumber, with its frequent outbreaks of barbaric cruelty, goes on with ever accelerating momentum. In her greeting to "The New Century," as found on page 22 of her Poems, Mrs. Eddy says:—

... lo, the light! far heaven is nigh!
New themes seraphic, Life divine,
And bliss that wipes the tears of time
Away, will enter, when they may,
And bask in one eternal day.