Article July 12, 1900 Issue

Our Warfare

BY B. A. MILLER.

"In time of peace prepare for war," is an old proverb.

In taking a bird's-eye view of the nations of the world, what do we find? That nearly, if not all, are either at war with their fellow-man or are making gigantic preparations for war. Millions of dollars are being appropriated for the building of battle-ships and instruments of destruction. And for defense against what? Is it not the fear, doubt, mistrust, envy, jealousy, covetousness, and similar conditions of mortal thought that are creating all this confusion? With all the religious teachings for the past hundreds of years, it does not appear that mortals are practising the teachings of the Sermon on the Mount to any very large degree. Is it not that same carnal nature in mortal man which crucified Jesus, that is predominating to quite an extent in this confusion of to-day? Imagine two opposing armies each praying to the same God to help it to annihilate the other?

If the old belief were true, that man has no chance to work out his salvation after what is termed death on this plane, what a terrible responsibility for those directly accountable for plunging a nation into a conflict that hurls thousands of her citizens into eternity—into the great unknown future—to their sense. But, thank God, the world is to-day rapidly gaining the understanding through Christian Science that takes away the sting of death and lifts mortals to a higher sense of life as God—a life that is indestructible and eternal—that it is only the testimony of a false material sense that says any thing or any body ever was killed, for "matter has no life to lose, and Spirit never dies" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker G. Eddy, p. 171).

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