Article December 3, 1938 Issue

Peace

G. LESLIE LYNCH

THE desire for peace is universal; yet the world is torn with wars and expectations of wars. Organizations are established to promote world peace. Treaties are signed in an effort to establish and maintain peace. National leaders state that they do not wish for war. Surely no one still believes the way to peace is through war. So why is it that nations still stand ready to go into battle?

The question seems difficult to answer in terms of nations and complex national problems. When we stop to consider, however, that a nation is simply a collection of individuals, we realize that world peace can be attained only in the degree that those composing the nations gain a right concept of peace, and bring it into their experience.

In the light of the teachings of Christian Science, true peace can come only as a result of right thinking, and right thinking is dependent upon a correct concept of the First Cause, or God. The realization that God is infinite, good, and all-harmonious, brings with it the conclusion that there is no genuine cause for war or for fear, hate, jealousy, envy, and greed, from which wars are evolved. Man is in reality spiritual, because God is Spirit, and the universe, including man, is the expression of God. Peace is the normal state of man, the image and likeness of God. When one sees his brother as he actually is, he cannot hate him, he cannot desire anything but good for him, and he cannot contemplate making war against him. Generally speaking, war is an effort to justify wrong thinking and establish it as right. That which is good gives no cause for conflict or aggression.

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