Editorial July 17, 1954 Issue

PROPHECY'S ASSURANCE

Helen Wood Bauman

Scriptural prophecy has proved itself to be God inspired and consequently reliable. The fact that good has dominion over evil is the central fact in the Bible and points to the inevitable outcome of human struggles. The assurance of prophecy that all evil will disappear should inspire and encourage every Christian.

Christ Jesus often quoted Scriptural prophecy in relation to his presence among men and the mission he was engaged in. Even after his resurrection, during the forty days preceding his ascension—his final victory over the material sense of life—he carefully explained his place in the prophetical fulfillment of the Scriptures. Luke records that he said to "the eleven" (24:44), "All things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me." And we read, "Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures."

The true Christian trusts the prophecies recorded in the Bible. He acknowledges, as the Master taught, that "the scripture cannot be broken" (John 10:35). But Christian Scientists recognize that Jesus' prophecy of a Comforter that would appear has come to pass in the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy. The Scientist has been comforted, himself, and has seen the power of Christian Science heal disease and many human ills, thus proving itself to be a divinely impelled unfoldment of Truth. He knows that the prophecy of our Master (John 14:26), "The Comforter ... shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you," has been fulfilled completely in Mrs. Eddy's interpretation of Jesus' precepts and works. He understands that Christian Science will eventually guide all mankind into Truth.

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