Editorial October 28, 1939 Issue

The False Basis of Strife

George Shaw Cook

Strife between individuals and between nations is often due to fallacious reasoning from wrong premises. Much of the conflict which seems at present to prevail may be traced to the belief that matter is substance and that the acquirement of sufficient matter to satisfy human needs is the chief concern of mankind. It is believed that if this cannot be accomplished by legitimate and peaceful means, resort to violence is necessary or justifiable.

Resort to force seeks justification in the excuse that one individual or group is being deprived by others of something necessary to their welfare and happiness. Christian Science teaches that it is utterly impossible for one individual to be deprived of anything real by another, or to depend upon another for anything that is real. It shows that there is but one real substance—divine Mind, Spirit—and that this true substance is universal and is reflected by all. Each individual child of God, therefore, has access to all the substance there is, and one cannot possibly need or desire more than all.

From this it will be seen that all the sons of God depend for their supply upon God, divine Mind, alone, and are not, therefore, dependent upon one another. Since the source is infinite, the supply is limitless, unfailing, and universal. On page 206 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, says, "In the scientific relation of God to man, we find that whatever blesses one blesses all, as Jesus showed with the loaves and the fishes,—Spirit, not matter, being the source of supply."

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