Editorial May 1, 1943 Issue

The Invincibility of United Effort

Peter V. Ross

The obvious strength in unity is simply yet graphically illustrated by the familiar story of an early American Indian chief. While arguing with other chieftains for a coalition of forces against a common enemy, he tried to break a bundle of fagots across his knee. Failing in the attempt, he seized the fagots one by one, and in a few moments, with little effort, broke them each and all.

It the early days of the present world war was the necessity of this stratagem borne in on the democracies. The shock of attack forced them to unified effort, which might well have been resorted to years before in anticipation of impending danger. So that now, if they act in response to divine Principle, the embattled nations will forge a union which will ensure victory and lasting peace.

Because, after all, unity in its full strength and permanence is spiritual. "Adhesion, cohesion, and attraction," writes Mary Baker Eddy, on page 124 of Science and Health, "are properties of Mind. They belong to divine Principle, and support the equipoise of that thought–force, which launched the earth in its orbit and said to the proud wave, 'Thus far and no farther.'"

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