Article April 8, 1933 Issue

International Neighbors

MARY EASTON

"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." This divine command appears with special import on today's horizon of world thinking, when national and international conferences are endeavoring to find a solution for many of the problems confronting the nations.

Love alone is the universal remedy, for "Love is impartial and universal in its adaptation and bestowals," as Mrs. Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 13). Through the teachings of Christian Science one learns to love more spiritually. Then individual obedience to the divine command means not only love for one's immediate neighbor, but also a love which is national, international, universal in its outlook and activity.

Individuals generally have a commendable patriotic love for their own country, zealously guarding, protecting, and sometimes defending what they deem the interests and wellbeing of all that concerns their own nation. But how often their love ends there! If we are to love our neighbor as ourselves, then our love should be world-wide. It must include all nations, and we must prayerfully concern ourselves with that which constitutes the well-being and interests of all mankind.

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