Article December 1, 1934 Issue

"The household of God"

MARY H. CUMMINS

IT is undoubted that the belief in different nationalities, different races, languages, and customs, has never tended toward the unifying of humanity, nor helped to establish the kingdom of heaven on earth. Rather has it contributed toward separation, misunderstandings, and differences of opinion which more than once have developed into international complications, sometimes with disastrous results. The endorsement or emphasis of these human conditions serves to engender fear and distrust. It thrusts the brotherhood of man into the background, and induces a point of view which regards as aliens the people of any country but one's own.

To some it may perhaps seem natural that, when confronted with a mode of speech and action entirely different from his own, with tendencies and inclinations foreign to his upbringing, the individual should regard as strangers. if not indeed as peculiar, those who so differ from himself. Even from a human standpoint this is a cramped and narrow view. It is proverbial that the more we come to know and understand other nations and peoples, their aims, aspirations, and ideals, their home life, affections, and capacity for loyal friendships, the more we see how much we have in common, and how trivial are the things which seem to separate us.

Christian Science comes to redeem mankind, and thus to abolish the false sense of separation and strife between individuals and between nations. It comes proclaiming and demonstrating the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Its influence is helping to level class distinctions and to eliminate class prejudice, to remove the barriers of national bias and dispel prejudgment. Those who are daily learning more about God and man's relationship to Him, as revealed in Christian Science, are learning the joy not alone of true sonship but of true brotherhood. They are beginning to understand what Paul meant when he wrote to the Ephesians, "Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God."

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