Article January 8, 1949 Issue

Universal order based on divine Principle shown to appear only as individuals turn from materialism to true Christianity

OUR WORLD RESPONSIBILITY

VISCOUNT ASTOR

On page 96 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy foreseeingly wrote: "This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces. On one side there will be discord and dismay; on the other side there will be Science and peace. The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears."

The world crisis seems so complex that people are apt to side-step it and limit themselves to solving their relatively small problems of sickness and sin, or else having made an effort they give up the task in despair.

What are the conflicting forces of which Mrs. Eddy warns us? The answer may be found in the materialism, atheism, and totalitarian dictatorship which are so rampant today. These find society disillusioned and a world upset by war, where millions are still uneducated and undernourished, and where governments are weak or corrupt. Combining into a single ideology, atheism, dictatorship, and materialism insidiously claim representatives in every social and political group.

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