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.

Christian Scientists study with special care what Mrs. Eddy has written concerning the book of Revelation. Through this study they gain the full assurance that good is decisively dealing with evil and that all the threats and machinations of error are certain to be silenced by Science.

Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 559,560), "The twelfth chapter of the Apocalypse, or Revelation of St. John, has a special suggestiveness in connection with the nineteenth century." In this chapter appears the figure of the woman crowned with twelve stars with its threefold significance (according to the interpretation of Science and Health) of (1) the spiritual idea, or generic man, (2) the motherhood of God, (3) the human messenger or representative, suffering as she gives birth to the ideal that promises salvation to all men. Immediately a red dragon is pictured as rising up to destroy the spiritual idea brought forth by the woman, but as being cast out, overcome by "the blood of the lamb"—the innocence of Christliness.

Our Leader overcame evil. The angels of her pure intuitions gave her the strength of Michael and the love of Gabriel—the power to resist and destroy the error that would have prevented the appearing of Christian Science and the love against whose might evil cannot wage war.

Mrs. Eddy says in her sermon "Christian Healing" (p. 10): "The dragon that was wroth with the woman, and stood ready 'to devour the child as soon as it was born,' was the vision of envy, sensuality, and malice, ready to devour the idea of Truth. But the beast bowed before the Lamb: it was supposed to have fought the manhood of God, that Jesus represented; but it fell before the womanhood of God, that presented the highest ideal of Love."

Christian Science reveals Love as giving the clearest sense of God, and it explains the logical fact that Love's creation is harmonious, a creation of ideas dwelling together in eternal peace. The student of this Science knows that he must live Love, if he is to express its power and take his place in the universal fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy by demonstrating the nothingness of all that opposes Love.

It is upon those to whom Love has revealed itself as divine Principle that this task devolves. They are to continue the proof of the great spiritual lesson of the Scriptures, taught by example and by prophecy, that good is supreme over evil, that God in His majesty is the sovereign power of being.

Mrs. Eddy completed her great demonstration—the discovery and the founding of Christian Science. Through innocence and Truth she overcame the dragon of envy that would have obstructed the progress of her work and destroyed her accomplishment. Faithfully she proved the powerlessness of evil to interfere with the fulfillment of Scriptural prophecy. The more quickly her followers learn this lesson, the more speedily will the prophesied final destruction of all evil take place; the beast of carnal-mindedness will be cast into the bottomless pit—the nothingness of evil mind will be proved. New Jerusalem, the kingdom and government of God, will appear as the only fact of existence.

Christ Jesus prophesied that a great mental, moral, and physical disturbance would come to the world as evil reached its worst possibilities of destructiveness and disappeared. But his prophecy includes the precious assurance that such disturbances only foretell the end of error, as the young leaves of the fig tree foretell the coming of summer (see Matthew 24).

Mrs. Eddy prophetically describes such disturbances in Science and Health. She foretells the fermentation that must take place in human thought as Truth urges its moral demands upon mankind. She says (p. 96), "Mortal error will vanish in a moral chemicalization." The more clearly the Christian Scientist interprets the confusion of the world and even its physical disturbances to be "a moral chemicalization"—the breaking up of sinful, selfish thought that would defy the law of God—the more successful he will be in demonstrating through obedience to divine law the Science that destroys evil in fulfillment of prophecy.

The fundamental truths that involve every unfoldment of divine law are coming to light through the moral chemicalization of our times. The two great facts of being—that man in God's image loves God supremely and that he loves his neighbor as himself—are dispelling the illusion of a false concept of man. They are rocking the very foundation of evil—its claim to make man a self-loving, morally weak mortal, readily disobedient to Truth and deeply asleep in the Adam dream of a life of materiality.

Whatever disturbances may arise from this moral upheaval, we should rejoice that the overturning of error's fraudulent claims is going on. We should hold with firm conviction to the assurance of Scriptural prophecy that Spirit will inevitably assert its allness and reveal the name, or divine nature, of every individual as "written in the Lamb's book of life" (Rev. 21: 27). Then God, governing His creation of spiritual ideas and reigning in the full supremacy of His wisdom and power, will be known as He exists eternally in divine Truth.

Helen Wood Bauman