Article February 3, 1923 Issue

Disarmament

LOUIS E. SCHOLL

AT a Wednesday evening meeting of a Christian Science society, a testimony was given that furnishes food for thought. A man of powerful build—in fact, of unusual physical proportions—gave the testimony. He was plainly a man who was accustomed to hard toil; and as he stood to speak he held a sleeping child in his arms. His wife sat beside him with a younger child asleep in her arms.

The man testified that one of his great problems had been to overcome a violent temper; that before he had read Christian Science and had endeavored to live by its teachings his impulse and temptation were to fight on the least provocation. He said that after becoming interested in Christian Science a fellow-workman had become incensed at him, accusing him of something for which he was not to blame, and in most insulting language had tried to force him into a fight. Remembering his reliance on spiritual power, he calmly asked the man to refrain from his abuse until he could explain. Having calmed down sufficiently to listen to an explanation, the belligerent one saw his mistake and humbly apologized. The incident clearly illustrates that as a mortal, prone always to depend upon material things, ceases to rely on the "arm of flesh" and, instead, puts his trust in Spirit, in that proportion "strength is made perfect in weakness," and we are able to say with Paul, "When I am weak, then am I strong."

The truth witnessed to in this testimony has healing for every one with a violent temper; it has healing for all manner of sickness and sin; it is answer as well to every moral, social, and economic problem. Indeed, in Christian Science is to be found the solution to the vital issue of disarmament, the way out of war to world peace.

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