Editorial December 18, 1926 Issue

Friendship and Peace

Albert F. Gilmore

The thought of the world, in greater degree than ever before, is being turned to the imperative necessity of abolishing war. It is becoming increasingly manifest that in order for the nations severally to fulfill their respective missions, even to maintain their identities, they must live in unity and harmony. Accordingly, all who have at heart the welfare of humanity are seeking some plan which has for its purpose to insure closer relationship between the nations, to promote firmer and more intimate friendship, whereby to establish lasting peace.

As Christian Scientists, we are convinced that permanent peace will come only when men cease to cherish in their hearts the seeds of war—hatred, false ambitions, love of power, greed, arrogance, and such like. In order that mankind may progress toward the millennium which Isaiah foresaw, toward the state of brotherhood upon which Christ Jesus laid such telling emphasis, these malevolents, invariably the procuring causes of war, must be cast out. The logical consequence of the recognition of God's fatherhood is like recognition of the brotherhood of man, the fellowship of all His children in one united brotherhood into which may enter no disturbing factor, no disintegrating evil.

The Christian Scientist, as he lays hold of these great truths about God and man through the agency of righteous prayer, strives constantly to bring into realization the blessed conditions of peace and good will which characterize true brotherhood; and while we may conclude that complete evangelization of humanity is not immediately at hand, yet the signs are unmistakable that the leaven of Truth is at work. The very stir which is at present apparent within so many nations throughout the whole earth is but a widespread chemicalization, marking the progress which spiritual truth is making in the transformation of human consciousness.

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