Article March 14, 1925 Issue

"The hour is come"

ADA D. FAIRCHILD

ON page 177 of "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy has sounded a call which should be heard by every loyal Christian Scientist to-day. She says in part, "Never was there a more solemn and imperious call than God makes to us all, right here, for fervent devotion and an absolute consecration to the greatest and holiest of all causes. The hour is come." Farther on she asks, "What will you do about it?"

Perhaps there has hardly ever been a time in the history of the world when it has seemed more sorely distraught or more in need of deliverance and salvation than now, all its powers, principalities, and governments having failed to bring it peace and harmony. When our Leader asked, "What will you do about it?" she knew that Christian Scientists are better prepared to meet and defeat the conspiracies of evil than are others, because they have an understanding of God's great law of adjustment and a demonstrable knowledge of its use and availability to render null and void every attempt of error to rob, deprive, or dispossess mankind of its rights,—liberty, health, and happiness. She also asks on the same page, "Will you give yourselves wholly and irrevocably to the great work of establishing the truth, the gospel, and the Science which are necessary to the salvation of the world from error, sin, disease, and death?" This shows how clearly Mrs. Eddy realized that the individual ability and responsibility of the Christian Scientist are greater in this age than ever before, because the crying need of the world for its savior was never louder.

The Christian Science movement is founded upon the teachings and demonstrations of Christ Jesus, and is sustained by the available power of Almighty God and supported by His divine law. Christian Scientists are learning how to invoke this power and apply this law, as did Jesus and his disciples, bringing it to bear upon discordant conditions of every name and nature, and reversing the false testimony of the material senses with the truth. Thus the correct understanding of God, of His spiritual universe and man in His image and likeness, perfect and immortal, is established in consciousness.

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