Article December 15, 1934 Issue

There Is No War

John W. E. Gilhespy

Reading the political and international news of the day, one can hardly fail to become aware that world thought is to a large extent obsessed by a belief in the imminence of war, and is more than doubtful of the possibility of devising means of averting it. In view of this a particular responsibility is laid on the shoulders of Christian Scientists in that they, and possibly they alone, hold the key to the situation and are aware of the true and only solution.

What, then, is the remedy for this situation? It is to declare and realize that in reality there is no war, and therefore never can be any war. This treatment comes within the scope of Christian Science practice, of which Mrs. Eddy writes on pages 9 and 10 of "Unity of Good": "What is the cardinal point of the difference in my metaphysical system? This: that by knowing the unreality of disease, sin, and death, you demonstrate the allness of God." From the standpoint of the allness of God, Love, we see that war is included in unreality.

But, it may be asked, how can one logically and conscientiously affirm the nothingness of war, when the evidences of it in the past and fear of it in the present are so plain? The answer is simple; and because it is based on divine Principle and logic, and not on the human sense of things, it is irrefutable. Since God is Love and All-in-all, there is no war, because war is not discoverable in Love. The mesmerism of the false belief in hate and war disappears before the realization of the allness of Love. Love and hate are irreconcilable, and because Love is the infinite Principle the spiritual universe, war does not exist in the universe. It can seem to occur only as part of a supposititious material existence, a dark and false dream belief from which Christian Science awakens men.

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