Article May 22, 1943 Issue

True Warfare

IDA M. EGGINSON

In these difficult times, when the world seems to be held in a mesmerism of war and upheaval, one who has some understanding of the Science of Christianity as practiced by Christ Jesus, and as revealed in our time by Mary Baker Eddy, grows increasingly grateful for the light of Truth illuming the path of thought and leading to the demonstration of peace in individual consciousness. One grows more and more thankful for the truth that all real being is harmonious, and that material warfare is therefore the result of mesmerism. Individuals need only to awaken out of the mesmeric dream to the recognition of the fact that the only warfare is the eradication of such foes as fear, greed, strife, aggression, retaliation, and similar negative qualities from individual thought. As this is done, some comprehension is obtained of the divine heritage of peace declared by Christ Jesus in his words, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you."

A Sunday school teacher was endeavoring to impress upon her pupils the necessity of overcoming evil with good, when one of the pupils, a girl about twelve years of age, told of an experience she had had that very morning which illustrated the point. She had awakened with a feeling of ill-will and antagonism to the truth. Furthermore, she had told her mother she did not wish to attend Sunday school that morning. Her mother, however, urged her to go, and she set out with her small sister. On the way, she suddenly turned and struck her sister. When she realized what she had done, she was thoroughly ashamed and began to cry. The little sister immediately put her arms about the elder girl and said: "Don't cry, sister. I love you." The pupil said that with her small sister's loving words and forgiving action, all feeling of ill-will melted away, and she and her sister proceeded happily on their way.

Paul, in his letter to the Romans, bade them "put on the armour of light;" in his second letter to the Corinthians he admonished the latter to put on "the armour of righteousness;" and to the Ephesians he said, "Take unto you the whole armour of God, ... having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; and your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; above all, taking the shield of faith, ... the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God."

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