Editorial December 2, 1933 Issue

Universal Peacemakers

Violet Ker Seymer

Christian Science is a powerful peace factor in the world today, for through its followers it lifts human thought above the struggle for material possessions and material defenses to the diviner urge for spiritual possessions and spiritual defenses. In the darkness of anxiety and fear, mankind naturally seeks safety in visible armaments. We can find safety only through wearing the armor described by St. Paul as "the breastplate of righteousness," "the helmet of salvation," and through having our "feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace." Through Christian Science human thought is learning to take these footsteps into the land of peace—the realm of divine Mind, God. In other words, spiritual enlightenment is at hand to heal and to bless all the children of men.

On the basis of spiritual righteousness, it is the right of every individual and nation to enjoy safety, prosperity, and peace. Mankind is conscientiously engrossed in a struggle for what it terms human rights; but, generally speaking, it is struggling in the dark and is animated by both mistaken motives and methods. The effort of many a nation today centers on what it terms primacy, and this human ambition involves men in rivalry, suspicion, and a futile concept of self-defense. Unity and peace will be cognized only as one primacy is acknowledged—that of God, divine Principle or Love, the creator, governor, preserver, and unifier of all that constitutes the one perfect spiritual creation. The primal facts of creation reveal true primacy, and through the recognition of this primacy of God, Spirit, all humanity is destined to be spiritually drawn into peace and unity.

Contrasting material armament with the spiritual, Mrs. Eddy says of the latter that "it is 'on earth peace, good will toward men,'—a cover and a defence adapted to all men, all nations, all times, climes, and races" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 127). Does the Christian Scientist invariably remember to affirm this "cover" and "defence" when reading of the fear and menace wrought among the nations by their common enemy—the carnal mind? Confronted with the traitorous consequences of wrong thinking as chronicled in the daily newspapers regarding world affairs, does the Christian Scientist devote some time daily to the realization that since God, good, is everywhere, evil is impotent, obsolete, and spiritual enlightenment is, in reality, omnipresent and omniactive? Whether it be expressed individually or nationally, fear is magnified selfishness or self-concern—a fiction of the carnal mind. From the standpoint of Truth, selfishness and mad ambition have no presence and no witnesses anywhere, since God, the only Mind, declares, "Ye are my witnesses."

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