Article March 15, 1947 Issue

Ushering in the Millennium

ROBERT WILLIAM BAYLES

Why do men look longingly into the future for complete happiness, good government, and triumphant holiness? Why do they put off knowing the kingdom of heaven and expect it to be an experience only after death? Is not one answer that the world believes that joy, success, and dominion must be found in matter, and that, because of the limitations of material existence, many people may only hope to find them at some uncertain future time, and that enduring rest and freedom are too transcendental for present comprehension and experience?

The illusory morsel of a future millennium, together with the deceptive promise of heavenly harmony found only in a world hereafter, has been dangled in front of mankind for ages as a reward for accepting physical sense testimony. Christian Science exposes the false arguments of material existence by revealing the allness of God as infinite Spirit, divine Mind, and the immortality of man as Mind's expression.

One may ask, "If there is no future millennium, where is our hope?" Christian Science replies in the words from a hymn (Christian Science Hymnal, No. 391):

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