Article September 9, 1944 Issue

A New Day Dawns

RALPH PARKER BAILEY

An era of unparalleled progress for mankind is now dawning. A declaration such as the foregoing relating to a world torn to its very foundations with ideological strife and racial and religious dissensions, may appear fantastic, unbelievable. But this is because the unillumined human mind, uninstructed in spiritual verities and divine realities, believes only what it thinks it sees and hears. This mind judges solely on the evidence presented by the five physical senses, and searches not beneath the material surface of a matter world to find the Principle, or spiritual cause, of which the physical and material are but type and shadow.

Happily, throughout the Christian world, men are turning today to the Bible, seeking within the Scriptures a solution to the world's grievous problems and besetments. The prescient Founder of Christianity, Christ Jesus, graphically foretells the travail of the present day. Ponder his words in Luke's Gospel: "Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: . . . and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity: . . . men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth." Could there be a more succinct and graphic portrayal of today's conflicts? Yet Christ Jesus, who came as the Saviour of mankind, could affirm from the pinnacle of vision, "When these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh."

To this age has been revealed the Science of Christ, or Christian Science, the Comforter, explaining and demonstrating the practical way of succor and deliverance from the debasement of war and for reconciling the complexities of postwar adjustments. This Science reveals the fearsome struggle of today to be but the throes of a redemptive process, the inevitable upheaval produced by aggressive evil in its violent but futile attempts to destroy omnipotent good.

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