The Turning Point of World War II          . . . Our Leader [Mary Baker Eddy] says, "The peace of Love is published, and the sword of the Spirit is drawn; nor will it be sheathed till Truth shall reign triumphant over all the earth." — till unselfed love is manifest (Mis. 185:8; 184:25; 89:20-24; Ret. 45:1), in universal thought.          Not only is it incumbent upon us to be obedient to her revelation, but it is of utmost importance that we see her in her true light as the woman of prophecy, — the woman "clothed with the sun," as she is described in the Apocalypse. You will recall my having read you that pronouncement which was issued by The Christian Science Board of Directors, entitled — "Mrs. Eddy's Place" and which was published in the Christian Science Sentinel, June 3, 1943. I not only read it to you, but I gave you a copy of it typed, so that in case you did not have that issue of the Sentinel you would always have this wonderful pronouncement in your permanent possession.          Let me tell you something interesting about that great document. When this public acknowledgement was made by our Directors, and which has become recognized as The Mother Church's estimate of our Leader as the Woman of the Apocalpyse, during that very week in which the Sentinel containing it appeared, — there was a definite turning of the war [World War II] from a sense of defeat to that of victory for the Allied Nations. During that week Attu was retaken; Northern Africa was taken by the Allies. On June 4 — the day after that same day Hitler lost his air-power over Russia and Stalingrad stood about them. On June 3, the French established a Liberation Committee in Algiers, and all free Frenchmen were invited. On June 7, (and I am speaking of all these events in the year of 1943) Sweden mobilized, preventing Germany from invading that nation. On June 11, Sicily surrendered — and Doolittle called this a land-mark in the history of military aviation.          On June 14, the Ruhr evacuation was reported. And during that same week — the first week in June — the U-boats destroyed in the Atlantic by the Allies were for the first time during all the war up to that point, in excess of their production by the Germans.          Here are the six major events which are now recognized as being the turning point of the war, which occurred during that week in June 1943 in which those six points of that marvelous Pronouncement were proclaimed. Is not that significant of the "signs of the times?" I feel that it is!   Extracts from "Association Address of 1966," by Israel Pickens

 

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