Article September 14, 1907 Issue

THE UNIFYING OF THE NATIONS

ARTHUR E. JENNINGS.

When I first began to tell others in England of the discovery of Christian Science and of its achievements, I found in some quarters as much opposition to America and her institutions as I did towards Christian Science. This experience taught me many valuable lessons. Having some knowledge of conditions on both sides of the water, I knew it was only a question of time and individual growth when this prejudice would be removed. A Christian Scientist knows the utter futility of deriding or belittling any nation or anybody, or of comparing one with another. God's law is justice, and we are learning through Christian Science that we cannot and do not want to escape its demands. The attempt to hide good from anybody reacts most heavily against oneself. The effort to hinder some one's progress by thinking or saying something derogatory is really putting a stumbling block in one's own pathway. Christian Science wants every one to succeed, and proves that they can do it.

A knowledge of the true history of America is useful to Christian Scientists in England, because it better enables us to understand the origin of Christian Science. It enables us to meet the arguments which would oppose the cause of Truth,—which would oppose peace. Through this Science it is possible to love the people of all nations alike, and thousands are learning to do so. It removes the error that tends to separate people, also the sense of rivalry and jealousy. It takes away the pride of a nation in material power and gives instead a sense of trust in spiritual power. It does not take anything away from any nation. It holds to the divine order. Each nation must fulfil its own mission, and each will rise or fall according to its own deeds.

It does not matter where a person is born in the flesh; he must do right in order to bring out unity and harmony. In Christian Science the student demands this from himself first of all, and as it is with a nation so it is with the individual. He must get a right sense of God and of his own relation to his fellow-men, and when this is obtained neither sea nor land can longer divide us. Truth is seen to be omnipresent, and may be applied in the same way in all continents. There has never been any objection in our day to Christianity because Jesus was born in Bethlehem and because the truth came from the East; and there is no more reason why Christian Science should be opposed in Europe because it was discovered by Mrs. Eddy and came from the West. It is always mortal mind that opposes good, not a person. Truth is always true, and truth and error never mix in any country. If, instead of the error, all the good done in the different lands were published and thought about, universal brotherhood would be closer at hand. Through Christian Science, which demands right thinking and right talking, the supposititious history of evil will be destroyed; men and women of all nations will see each other as God sees them, and be at peace.

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