It is sometimes said that the strongest logic of all is the logic of events. By this is usually meant that human events are the irresistible logic which shapes our destinies.

Christian Science, however, teaches that the true animus of existence is not ever-appearing material circumstances, which blindly determine men's lives. The true logic of events is seen always in the increasing understanding and proving of the Christ-idea. The affairs of men can be truly understood only in the light of unfolding spiritual might. The evidence of the logic of events is the spiritual progress of humanity; the ultimate of the logic of events is the final spiritualization of all things.

It is the gradual appearing of the Christ-idea, seen increasingly from age to age, which gives unity and meaning to the scattered fragments of human history. In the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes, "Christ's Christianity is the chain of scientific being reappearing in all ages, maintaining its obvious correspondence with the Scriptures and uniting all periods in the design of God" (p. 271). The inspired Word of the Bible presents always the logic of events as the appearing of the Christ-idea in the consciousness of men.

It is to the Bible, spiritually understood, that we must look if we would understand the dawn, development, and ultimate of spiritual power in human affairs. Safety and peace in these latter days, as in all troubled times, rest upon an ever-increasing demonstration of spiritual power.

Spiritual progress alone lifts mankind above the perils of material power and mortal thinking. It is the leaven of Truth which truly impels the ages, underlying and illuminating all true goodness and progress. Mrs. Eddy states in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 272), "Goodness is greatness, and the logic of events pushes onward the centuries; hence the Scripture, 'The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me [man] free from the law of sin and death.'"

In order to progress spiritually, we must be led of God to adopt in every situation the highest stand perceptible to our present spiritual vision, a stand which we can sustain by demonstration. As the individual seeks prayerfully to work out in human affairs the highest and deepest good of which he is capable, he finds that the test of all human footsteps is whether or not they meet the need at the time and whether or not they meet the need in the most spiritual way possible under the circumstances.

Every advancing spiritual level of thought finds expression in human affairs in new and higher human footsteps, which thus unfold and form the broadening and ascending pattern of our lives. The states and stages of progressive human thought lead us upward out of every condition of mortality and to the doors of heaven.

In the experience of one with a consecrated heart, the logic of events leads always heavenward. The storms and shadows of mortal existence are found to exalt and purify; just as its sunshine and peace offer welcome respite in which to work the more earnestly for God. Writing in the chapter on Marriage in the Christian Science textbook, our Leader tells us (p. 60), "From the logic of events we learn that selfishness and impurity alone are fleeting, and that wisdom will ultimately put asunder what she hath not joined together."'

In discerning truly the logic of events, we do not surrender thought and action to a blind destiny or to an arbitrary fate. Rather, do we think and act from the spiritually perceived premise that all things are in the hand of God, who reveals through Science the certain destiny, the infinite direction and purpose, of Truth and Love.

To behold the logic of events is to work and pray for the revelation of the divine purpose, the certain direction of eternal Love, in our own life and the lives of all men. Often the solution of difficult problems involves the exalting and purifying, yea, the changing of our own most certain and cherished thoughts and opinions about the answers we seek to these very problems.

Our present perception of our Father's wisdom may not be equal to the depth and power of His mighty purpose for ourselves and others in our unfolding human experience. Thus must we await our Father's hand, moving only at His direction, lest working in the shadow of our own desires, we may err.

Just as spiritual progress is seen in our individual experience through the increasing spirituality of the human footsteps of our lives—the increasing spirituality of the pattern of the logic of events—so the spiritual progress of the world is seen in the increasing spirituality and justice of the unfolding pattern of earth's events. As the pages of the authorized Christian Science periodicals record the world's increasing understanding of Truth, so do the pages of The Christian Science Monitor reveal the effects of this leaven of Truth in the affairs of humanity.

Christian Scientists today are trustees for all mankind. The Mother Church fulfills in human experience the twofold purpose of preserving in trust for the world the pure teachings of Christian Science and of utilizing in present human experience this bread of heaven. The fading away of sin, sickness, death, and all materiality from human consciousness cannot come, however, until the hand of God as seen in the logic of events, the Science and suffering of this final millennium of human history, has fully prepared the hearts and minds of men.

Christ Jesus, in speaking of the times to come upon earth, tells us (Matt. 24:22), "Except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh he saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened." Those to whom it is given to know the trend and consummation of the logic of events, the course of Truth in the affairs of earth, will through the peace and steadfast achievements of their own lives fulfill the wondrous trusts of heaven.

None need fear the logic of events, the breaking up of material modes of thought, and the development of true power which increasingly characterize the changing scene of earthly activity. The Science of these changes is Christian and divine; the impetus and ultimate of these changes is eternal Love.

Speaking of the final spiritualization of all things, Peter wrote in the closing chapter of his second Epistle, "We, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth." He added, "Seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless." He who understands truly the logic of events can dwell in perfect peace amid the sunshine and shadow of earth's changing scenes, and can await with joy their spiritual ultimate.