Article November 2, 1946 Issue

Peace on Earth

[Original Article in German]

BERTA TRACHSLER

Peace on earth is the desire of the entire world today. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, taught her followers that peace comes not through the might or weight of armament or the roar of cannon, but through a change of thinking from evil to good, from a material basis to the spiritual. Jesus taught his disciples (Matt. 19:19), "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

So long as mankind holds in thought hatred of any sort there can be no true peace on earth. Thus each individual must learn to erect the kingdom of peace within himself. Spiritual building, however, can be done only with spiritual ideas. All earthly, false, and evil thoughts, and all that they may plan, must fall into dust, because such planning is not of God; hence it has no creator. Whatever does not have God, good, as creator, has no life, no cause, no justification for existence, no duration; for only that which God causes with His "Let there be," and names "very good," has abiding value and eternal being.

This one and only creation, as recorded in the first chapter of the Bible and the first three verses of the second chapter, is, like its creator, absolutely perfect and consists of God's ideas. The perfection of each one of these ideas exists as a spiritual fact in immutable divine Mind. This spiritual creation forever remains the timeless, boundless revelation of God. In this divine creation reside perfection and eternal peace. They remain untouched by human strife and worldly opinions. Mankind can neither add anything to God's creation nor take anything from it. What is divinely "finished" and "very good" remains for all eternity. God has not given man the prerogative to be or do something of himself. He gave mankind His "only begotten Son," that the Son might teach us to do the will of his and our heavenly Father.

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