ALL men must eventually follow the Lamb, whether this year or next year, this century or next century, and that they must do so sooner or later is inescapable. The Lamb is a term used in the Scriptures and accepted and further explained in Christian Science as the spiritual idea of Truth is the Almighty which knows not error, "neither shadow of turning." The idea or representation of such All-power must be and is the exact reflection of its cause and so is also without shadow of turning. In other words, this idea is one thing alone, whole or infinite good. Its wholeness and its simplicity make it entirely intelligible to men, so that they may follow good or the right without turning aside in any way to half good, half right, or indeed, to anything less than what expresses Principle. Since Truth is another name for good, and the spiritual idea is what expresses Him, and is what He has created, this idea is the Son of God, or Christ, the blessed activity of Spirit always present.

Following the Lamb, therefore, is the willingness to leave material pursuits in all their countless forms of false eccle-siasticism, lust for bodily satisfaction, greed for commercial success based on questionable practices, and any desire whatever to temporize with evil and to pursue it just a little longer. It is the willingness to abandon wrong things, and the acceptance of the battle that ensues when a man strives to turn his willingness to do good into good deeds actually done. Following the Lamb, or obeying the more and more clear-cut demands of Principle in this age is not an easy thing for the materially minded person, but it is increasingly easy for the one who desires to do right and who is therefore as spiritually minded as his desire is deeply founded. But doing right is simple, and there is nothing in the process of doing right or following the Lamb, the idea of Mind, that is not clear and direct. It is the winding way of wrong that is devious, complicated, and deceiving. It is not hard to do right. The difficulty comes in having the willingness to turn, and in the actual turning from evil things.

The Lamb, being the expression of infinite good, or Principle, is infinitely gentle, but unyielding in its rightness. The willing man obedient to the demands of the Christ, or Truth, will find the true idea thus communing with him, "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." To sup thus is to enjoy the green pastures and the still waters of the twenty-third psalm; but it is also to take part in that "war in heaven" which results when the goodness that men accomplish displaces the suppositional evil that continually disputes progress and denies the salvation of men and of the world. And the goodness that men achieve, they achieve as they perceive that omnipotent good is right here now, and that the Christ or spiritual idea expresses it, and, further, that it is only their false trust in another presence than God and His idea that prevents the demonstration of harmony for them.

The spiritual idea, then, always leads upward, and they who follow whithersoever it goeth ascend in their comprehension of it and what its demands are, namely, the unqualified wiping out of the myth that there is material mind and material activity. In every day in every month, continually, the spiritual idea will require more and more testing of the world's inhabitants and their systems. "Whithersoever he goeth," whatsoever new demand for progress is made, those who are willing, and ready, will welcome it gladly and will not groan or complain over the hardness of the road. Indeed, their very willingness and readiness will make the road, and are making it now, radiant with the freshness and peace of green pastures and still waters even in the midst of apparent waste and waterless places. And such as these are "they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth." Mary Baker Eddy, writing in Science and Health of "three classes of neophytes," describes the last of the three in this way: "A third class of thinkers build with solid masonry. They are sincere, generous, noble, and are therefore open to the approach and recognition of Truth. To teach Christian Science to such as these is no task. They do not incline longingly to error, whine over the demands of Truth, nor play the traitor for place and power" (p. 450). Who can say where the spiritual idea goeth; that is, where the unfoldment of new things for the systems of the world will lead to, and what new-old demonstration men will be called upon to make as the result of the demands put upon them by their increased spiritual understanding? All must be ready when this unfoldment comes and not "whine over the demands of Truth," for this unfolding idea is wonderful in promise, and they who, like the wise virgins, are waiting and ready, will have the blessing. In fact, the unfoldment of good is taking place always, and Principle alone determines what it shall be.

The spiritual idea in its destruction of evil in the world may appear to be met with opposition that at times seems unconquerable, but, as Mrs. Eddy says: "Divine Science shows how the Lamb slays the wolf. Innocence and Truth overcome guilt and error. Ever since the foundation of the world, ever since error would establish material belief, evil has tried to slay the Lamb; but Science is able to destroy this lie, called evil" (Science and Health, pp. 567-68). The story of Cain and Abel, of Pharaoh and Moses, of the Syrian king and Elisha, of Herod and the babe Jesus, and later the chief priests and the Master, the story of Wycliffe, Luther, and other leaders in the Reformation, and the dense materialism that they opposed, as well as other and later examples of the continual attempt to destroy, are matters of history. But through it all, unconquerable healing has gone on. Moses drove back the sea so that dry grpund appeared for his people; Elisha took captive those sent to capture him, he healed leprosy, and raised the dead; the Master healed all manner of diseases and raised himself from death; Wycliffe lifted the Scriptures out of the dead Latin into English and they never again were lost; Mary Baker Eddy discovered Christian Science in 1866 and gave to the world the key to the Bible in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." And in this age the healing of all known diseases, the destruction of sin and dead beliefs, have taken place and are now occurring thus proving that healing is the effect of ever present Truth or God, and therefore can never in reality be absent.