Editorial April 30, 1938 Issue

Undisturbed

George Shaw Cook

Well-informed persons will be likely to agree that the war and strife which seem evident in the world today are not so much contests between nations, as between opposing theories of government. These contests are gradually resolving themselves into a conflict between different forms of dictatorship, on the one hand, and representative democracy, on the other hand.

Although conflict of human opinions may lead to fields of battle, the issue is not finally disposed of on the battlefield. It is obvious that destruction of human lives and material property can never finally settle disputes pertaining to human rights. These questions must ultimately be answered in accordance with the divine law of justice and righteousness. Therefore it will be seen that, strictly speaking, warfare is carried on, not in one part of the globe, or another, but in human consciousness.

While to the material senses the atrocities incidental to the coercion of weaker nations by stronger are horrifying to peace-loving persons, it should be remembered by students of Christian Science that these disquieting conditions appear real only to human sense. From the divine or spiritual point of view, they do not exist. Therefore Christian Scientists, while humanly sympathizing with the seeming suffering and loss experienced by those on both sides of a conflict, must at the same time maintain their mental poise and spiritual serenity through holding firmly to the fact that such discordant conditions have no place whatever in divine reality.

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