Article May 21, 1966 Issue

The Challenge of the Twentieth Century

ELIZABETH S. KENNELLY

Christian Science is based on an infinite, ever-operative divine Principle that is self-enforcing. This inexorable Principle, or God, functions eternally for the accomplishment of good and makes Science and Christianity coincident. The challenge of the twentieth century is to awaken all humanity to the benefits of scientific Christianity.

Every century has within itself the seed of that which sets it apart from every other. Because of human use or misuse of opportunities each age appears to leave an impression of progress or retrogression. The centuries in which good has most noticeably appeared are dramatically seen to be the one in which Moses lived, the first century of the Christian era, the period of the Reformation, and the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The concept of God as the Lawgiver enabled Moses to see law at work in the Ten Commandments and to lead the children of Israel to the Promised Land. Christ Jesus, in the first century of the Christian era, understood God as Love and availed himself of Love's authority by healing sin, sickness, and even death. The Comforter he promised was recognized by Mary Baker Eddy, late in the nineteenth century, as the fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy, as God's revelation of truth, appearing to human apprehension as divine Science, which heals and regenerates mankind.

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