“If all…will take up the cross, heal the sick, cast out evils, and preach the Christ, or Truth to the poor,–the receptive thought, – they will bring in the millennium.”(S&H)
This statement has always met a lot to me because of the challenge it implies. Certainly, an important outcome of anyone’s life work would be to help usher in the millennium, especially if he/she considers himself a Christian Scientist. On pages 139 and 240 of “Miscellany” Mrs. Eddy sheds further light on this topic, “The millennium is a state and stage of mental advancement, going on ever time was. Its impetus, accelerated by the advent of Christian Science, is marked, and will increase till all men shall know Him (Divine Love) from the least to the greatest, and one God and the brotherhood of man shall be known and acknowledged throughout the earth.” Let us watch, work and pray for the unfoldment of God’s plan for His people, remembering the words of hymn #82, “March we forth in the strength of God with the banner of Christ unfurled, that the light of the glorious Gospel of truth may shine throughout the world; Fight we the fight with sorrow and sin, to set their captives free, that the earth man be filled with the glory of God as the waters cover the sea.”