A WORLD MOVEMENT

MERCY M. GAGE.

Christian Science has already encompassed the globe, has found its way among all civilized nations. The contemplation of this great world movement carried the writer back to her schooldays and the lessons in natural philosophy, and with this came the thought that Mrs. Eddy has been more successful in her researches in the realms of metaphysical science than was Archimedes in the realm of physics or mechanical science.

Archimedes is quoted as having said, "Give me a fulcrum on which to rest my lever, and I will move the world." Mrs. Eddy has thus moved the world, and it is still moving! She discovered the truth of being, and she found that it was a sufficient fulcrum on which to rest all the leverage that we can bring to bear upon it. She also found that divine Love reflected is the all-sufficient power that never fails to do its part in the operation of this metaphysical mechanism. The lever is the only conditional element. It must be of the right metal; no dross of mortal beliefs may enter into its composition. It must be like a bar of pure steel, wrought in the mills of understanding. Thus the real man, made in God's image and reflecting Mind, is the only agent or transmitter of the power of divine Love, while the weight that is to be removed is the mortal belief concerning substance, Life.

As already stated, Mrs. Eddy has moved the world—not all at once, but with untiring efforts, supported by her certain knowledge of the truth gained through demonstration as well as inspiration, she has enabled men to profit by their spiritual leverage—each one on his own plane of attainment adding his "lift," though it be only a pound's weight.

The chief agencies employed in this great enterprise are the Christian Science text-book, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures;" the lectures, which are personally addressed to large audiences wherever the English language is understood; the Lesson-Sermons, that are read to a thousand or more congregations every Sunday, and the periodicals which are being sent broadcast through the entire field. Taken as a whole, these agencies of Truth form a cumulative efficiency which is lifting thought out of that mire of materialistic belief in which it has for so many centuries been embedded, and it will continue to lift until human sense and its activities swing fair and free in the atmosphere of spiritual discernment, where no clouds of belief in sin, disease, or poverty can dim its vision. Was it not to this liberated world that Jesus referred when he said, "I go to prepare a place for you"?

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