Article December 5, 1931 Issue

United Interests

LOUISE KNIGHT WHEATLEY COOK

The starting point of all scientific demonstration in Christian Science is that God is the one and only Mind. Against this basic truth, however, that which is termed mortal mind, or the so-called mind of mortals, makes stubborn opposition. So it was in Jesus' time. When he asked the name of the devil which was troubling the lunatic man, the devil replied, "My name is Legion: for we are many." This false assumption, that there is more than the one Mind, and that these minds are ever at variance, ever warring antagonistically one against the other, is challenged by divine metaphysics, which asserts that since there is but one Mind, and all ideas emanate from this one Mind and are in harmonious accord with it, they must necessarily be in harmonious accord with one another.

Man, made in God's image and likeness, is ever present. Mortal mind has no power to declare his absence, to divide man into mortals, or being into beings. Because of the unbroken scientific unity which exists between God and man there is no opportunity for man to express aught but perfection. He is entirely separate and apart from evil, sin, disease, and death. He knows them not, because God knows them not, and man can know only that which God knows. Man's immunity lies in his oneness with Life, Truth, and Love, which constitutes an indissoluble bond against which the gates of hell cannot prevail. He knows no divided interest, for with one Father, God, all men are brethren, and live in unbroken, sweet accord. What appeared to human sense like a broken bone was once healed through the application of this great truth. In the family of the individual who was experiencing this claim there seemed to be great division, a discordant sense of minds many, of conflicting purposes and aims, each one struggling for supremacy. When this false belief of separation and inharmony was corrected by Truth, the break was healed, and the bone knitted perfectly.

There is but one Church, a wholly spiritual structure, which exists in Mind, not upon any corner of any street. A right understanding of this would eliminate all possibility of rivalry on the part of the workers in the church that represents this one. Christian Science knows no separation between its branch churches, nor between Christian Scientists. We are all united in one interest, to lessen sin, disease, and death, and to establish the kingdom of God. The steadfast holding to the realization of the one Church will go far toward healing any of these false beliefs about it, just as the steadfast holding to the realization of spiritual man, forever united to all good, will heal any false beliefs about a sick man, bound and fettered by human theories.

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