“… [A]nd there was gathered unto him a great multitude, so that he entered into a ship, and sat in the sea; and the whole multitude was by the sea on the land.” (Mark 4:1.)
Reading this passage opened to my view a mighty picture of what must now come to pass upon the whole earth: great multitudes of people from every nation “gathered unto Him”, in fulfillment of Mrs. Eddy’s Daily Prayer: “May Thy Word enrich the affections of all mankind, and govern them.”
The highest aim of Christian Science is to make manifest on earth “the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world.” (John 1:29.) In Mrs. Eddy’s key to the Book of Revelation, the angel of Christian Science not only exercises supreme authority over sin that is already manifest on earth but also sin that is as yet un-manifest. In other words, Christian Scientists are not only to dominate and cast out sin that is expressing itself visibly and audibly right now, but also to choke and prevent latent sin from ever emerging in the future. (SH 559.)
God grant that the Christ may find, as never before, a place to “sit in the sea” beside ever-increasing multitudes; that entire nations may stand, “gathered unto Him”, on the solid ground of fixed attention to the Word that is “life to all that find [it] and health to all their flesh.” (Prov. 4:22.)
As modeled by Jesus in his long hours of prayer before dawn, watching means establishing a deep, ceaseless connection with the “thought-force” of Science that “launched the earth in its orbit and said to the proud wave, ‘Thus far and no farther.’” (SH 124.).
The wisdom of God guarantees that through obedience to certain immutable principles — Christian Science principles – through hours of committed watching and importunate prayer, watchers can at last connect with the thought-force that creates worlds, to loose entire populations from their earthbound moorings and launch them all into orbit around the Sun of righteousness.