Article August 12, 1939 Issue

World Progress

MABEL SPICER GILL

Some people are saying that were the world put in order today, with all personal, national, international, and racial differences justly and satisfactorily settled, it would not long so remain, because, as they claim, human nature, with its manifold shortcomings and idiosyncrasies, could not maintain a perfect state. They dolefully declare that it will ever be thus. Possibly this assumption would be correct if human nature were always to remain at its present level.

Christian Science, however, points the way to a higher humanity and correspondingly better world conditions. In the words of its Discoverer and Founder, Mary Baker Eddy (Unity of Good, p. 6): "Sooner or later the whole human race will learn that, in proportion as the spotless selfhood of God is understood, human nature will be renovated, and man will receive a higher selfhood, derived from God, and the redemption of mortals from sin, sickness, and death be established on everlasting foundations."

At present many are concerned lest men lose their hardwon freedom of thought, speech, and worship. Noting the attempted re-establishment of certain despotic institutions of by-gone ages, they fear for the continuance of democracy and righteous government. They behold the evident recurrence of ancient evils under new names, and efforts to terrorize people into yielding subservience to wicked ends and tyrannical control. Each time, be it observed, that a persistent evil recurs to harass the race, it encounters more and more of good established and operating in the world consciousness, with which it must contend. Furthermore, inasmuch as the only power of evil is to destroy itself, with each recurrence a wrong must be in a somewhat depleted state. Governments and civilizations may rise and fall, creeds and religions may wax and wane, but whatever of good they have embodied remains to advance "the steady gain of man."

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