Article February 4, 1922 Issue

Nationality

HULDA PETERSON HOLMES

Each nation, like the individual, has its so-called character, its temperament, its beliefs, its laws ruling and governing. The individual has his or her set rules of conduct, code of ethics, or spiritual ideals. According to the method of his or her education or training is judgment passed, either rightly or wrongly.

When Christian Science awakens both the individual and the nation to the patriotism of God, the many learn that God's laws are good and not evil, that all law is spiritual and not material, and are enabled to judge righteous judgment, to live amicably, and to be law-abiding. Rebellious subjects of another nation often arrive in a country, and with them arrive the same thoughts of rebellion against government. Not having learned the ways of the new country, its teachings, its freedom, its national spirit, nor felt the influence of its ideals, one may begin to rebel there and sometimes try to take matters into his own hands, acting through violence and sabotage.

Mortal mind, like the rebel, often puts an erroneous construction upon the teaching of Christian Science; and the one beginning to study its teachings may find a rebellious condition of thought arise at the statements of absolute truth contained in the textbook. One after another of these rebellious uprisings will be quelled, as it were, as the truth is discerned and the spiritual idea unfolds. It is the human mind that must be instructed out of error. It is the "old man" that must be put off. The human or mortal mind is not true Mind, because it knows nothing but beliefs, not real facts. The truth about anything false is the fact that it is not true; therefore it is nothing. Mortal mind, whatever it may claim, when seen as a counterfeit can have no charm or power over one. It is the opposite of divine Mind, the "I am that I am" which says, "Beside me there is no God." Asserting and sustaining this truth, one can overcome the existing wrong beliefs of alien or domestic eccentricity. Being governed by Principle, one sees with Paul and can say with him, that there are "no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God."

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