My Beloved Students,

How wondrous is God's providence; how wise His ways; how insignificant
our comprehension of His purpose and how strange that little I should be
the theme of ancient prophecy and the scribe of divine Love's infinite plan
of salvation.

Oh, may Mother's tears daily falling on the brow of thought waken the
sleepers to become company for the woman in the wilderness. If you are
seeking Truth go where it is taught . . . . to the fountain head . . . . to
"the seed of the woman" which, in these latter-days, is bruising the
head of the wily serpent error, and bringing Love and Good home to the
nations.

"Whom do men say that I am?" asked our Lord. Curiosity and superstition
called him a false prophet, while ignorance accepted any and every
statement which envy and malice put abroad.

Who taught us the way which Jesus marked out? Is she right? Dare you
say because she is a woman she is not God-selected and sent? How
speaks He in His divine code of Science? It was a woman who took three
measures of meal, and put into it the leaven which leavened the whole
lump. It was a WOMAN who took the OINTMENT, divine SCIENCE, and
poured it out in offering to the divine inspiration.

It was the woman was was to be clothed in light, and who should bruise the
head of the serpent, while error stung her heel. Oh fools and blind, do you
see the re-appearing of the Star of Bethlehem, and note not the coincident
re-appearing of the Christ, the Truth? Every effort put forth to hinder the
world's knowing the right one to lead on this period but lifts her higher into
her place.

This Science, in its completeness, is the fulfillment of the prophecy:
"Behold, I work a work in your day; a marvelous work."

This messenger must be God-sent. How can it be otherwise, considering
the work she has already done, and her experience in being brought to it?
What a triumphant career is this for a woman! Can it be anything less than
the "tabernacle of God with men," . . . . the fulfillment of the vision to the
lonely Seer on the Isle of Patmos, . . . . "the wonder in heaven," . . . .
delivering the child which shall rule all nations?

How dare we say to the contrary that she is God-sent to the world, as much
as any character of Sacred Writ? The greatest sin of Christendom today, is
the denial of God's manifestations in sending His chosen ones, as of old.
It is practical Atheism. Like the unbelieving Jews, they would shut out all
fulfillment of their own prophecies."

Oh, God bids me to admonish you to expose the Red Dragon that makes
war on the woman. If only the students knew what influences them to this
inhuman conduct it would abate two thirds of it. They must be told. This
subtlety must be brought to light. Study my chapter on Revelation.
HELP ME to tread on the serpent's HEAD and kill it. There is still a wonder
in heaven, harmony, the great Red Dragon ready to devour the idea which
the woman brings forth as soon as it is born!

God has given me wisdom to guard against this mode of defeating us, and
He gave me to the world to help them to see the way of meeting the Dragon.
Still, with all this, my students go right on betraying me into the hands of
men!

"And her child was caught up of God, and to his throne." Every student of
Christian Science who has discerned Principle, and entered in any degree
into the deep things of God, has seen that Divine Science is the "child" that
the dragon stood ready to devour "as soon as it was born." Hear it! The
crowned Woman is nourished in her "place prepared of God."

The Divine Child has no travail in flesh; but, soon as born, is set on the
"right hand of God." The dragon prevails not; showing that God is caring,
too, for all who . . . . through the Woman and the Child . . . . lift their gaze
above the brazen serpent, and look beyond the cross to the now unveiled
Throne of God.

Mary Baker Eddy