Article October 7, 1939 Issue

"Let us have peace"

EDNA B. WILLIAMS

On the busy thoroughfare of a great city a monument which honors a brave general has been erected. Engraved upon it are his last spoken words, "Let us have peace."

To a Christian Scientist who paused to read, these words spoken long ago conveyed a direct and timely message; also, they seemed to echo the prayer which must be uppermost in the hearts of a great multitude of earnest men and women in many lands. For today the world is weary of strife and warfare, and of the poverty, suffering, and dissolution resulting therefrom. To the unillumined thought the situation may appear dark and even hopeless, but those who discerningly read the signs of the times can see reasons for rejoicing. It may mean that the daystar is rising in the troubled thought, heralding the dawn of a better day, for the weariness of strife and the intense desire for peace so universally felt at the present time indicate that the day is approaching when mortals will turn from material means and methods, which at best accomplish only temporary peace, and seek under God's direction the solution of the problem of overcoming world strife.

How true it is that for many weary years mortals have been searching in every direction but the right one for that which is just at hand. Nearly two thousand years ago Christ Jesus made the enlightening statement, "Behold, the kingdom of God is within you." The kingdom of heaven, a state of peace and harmony, is even now within our power to comprehend. This glorious fact is revealed to human understanding through the great fundamental truths plainly stated in the Scriptures and illumined in Christian Science. Therein we learn that God is the only cause or creator, and that He is good. The universe, including man, being the effect of this absolutely good cause, must partake of its divine nature; it must be spiritual, perfect, and harmonious, even "very good," as stated in the first chapter of Genesis. Man, then, governed by divine Principle, exists at the standpoint of spiritual perfection, and is ever at peace.

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