Editorial February 24, 1923 Issue

Unity

Duncan Sinclair

EVERYBODY will concede that in unity there is strength. Even rogues admit the fact; for they believe that when they bind themselves together to carry out some nefarious project they are more likely to succeed, temporarily, than if they remain disunited. Whether it be in the practice of good or evil, mankind believes it can achieve its ends more quickly, more readily, more assuredly, when its units are combined. And to-day, when it has to be admitted that humanity still seems a great way from the realization of man's perfection as a child of God, it would be folly on the part of those who are endeavoring to establish the reign of divine Principle on earth to overlook the part which unity of action can play in that great work, or be prevented from striving to bring this unity about.

It would seem almost unnecessary to bring such a question as this of unity before students of Christian Science; for is not the teaching of Christian Science virtually a plea for unity? Christian Science teaches the allness of God; that there exists but one Mind; and that individual man is absolutely at-one with divine Mind. And since that is the true relationship between each individual man and God, it must be likewise true with regard to the relationship existing between man and man. In reality, in actual divine being, there exists perfect unity between all of God's ideas, because God's ideas reflect the same perfect attributes or spiritual qualities of divine Mind. Thus, dissension is not a fact of reality, because dissension or lack of unity is not a quality of God, divine Love. Division is one of the myths, one of the poor, mean fallacies of the so-called human mind. Christian Scientists are aware of these facts. Are they doing their utmost, therefore, so to live in accordance with divine Truth that the error of division may be speedily destroyed? Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 43), "The divine must overcome the human at every point."

If one studies the history of the Christian Science movement, he finds that from the very beginning of it the disrupting tendencies of mortal mind were in evidence. Sometimes it was pride that tried to hold sway over the humility of the Christ-idea; at other times it was jealousy, envy, or self-will that tried to displace the manifestation of divine Truth and Love. Each and all of these disintegrating tendencies, by whatever name they may be called, were in every case but different aspects of supposititious mortal mind's activity, that false mentality which, in belief, is always claiming to exist and to operate in opposition to the one real divine Mind. Now, when the situation is clearly discerned, it should be no difficult task for Christian Scientists to hold to the truth and defeat the evil influence of that which is wholly a lie. It has to be remembered, however, that no one dare close his eyes to the claims of evil. There never can be any compromise with these false beliefs. But that does not mean that they need be feared; rather, every false claim or belief of evil must be handled by knowing its utter nothingness. Because God, good, is infinite, evil is nothing.

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