Editorial March 29, 1941 Issue

Recognizing the Truth about War

Alfred Pittman

On page 494 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy writes: "Reason, rightly directed, serves to correct the errors of corporeal sense; but sin, sickness, and death will seem real (even as the experiences of the sleeping dream seem real) until the Science of man's eternal harmony breaks their illusion with the unbroken reality of Scientific being."

In accordance with this great passage, the Christian Scientist perceives that his fundamental work with respect to the war now being waged in many parts of the world is to reason rightly about it, from the basis of the allness of God, good, thereby maintaining his consciousness of Truth; and in his prayer he does this boldly, as with authority from God. He is wholehearted in his desire to see right triumph, and diligent in his endeavor to do, and support others in doing, whatever is humanly necessary to that end; but he knows the decisive importance of Christianly scientific thinking—thinking which accords with the words of the Hebrew law giver, "The Lord he is God; there is none else beside him." By such thinking, together with the human footsteps that properly accompany it, the truth of God's allness is proved scientifically, so that the proof is apparent to mankind.

The Christian Scientist therefore recognizes that even in the hour of his giving his attention to the subject, there is in absolute reality no war; that war is impossible in the allness and oneness of divine Mind. He perceives that in that hour and forever, man in God's likeness lacks a motive for aggression, being forever satisfied with the fullness of good. He perceives that man in reality has, and has had, no impulse or action save that derived from divine intelligence and Love; that he is in every instance and everywhere only divine Love's expression of its own benignity and fulfillment. The Scientist recognizes that this is the truth about himself and about all men, and he therefore spontaneously experiences love for all.

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