Editorial June 4, 1949 Issue

"THE GREAT CONFLICT"

Helen Wood Bauman

The twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew records a prophecy of the Master's which is of great import to mankind. In it he describes the disturbance which occurs in the so-called human mind as God asserts His presence and the reality of His spiritual creation, and His opposite, the carnal mind, is forced to give up its false claim to existence. The Apostle Paul describes this warfare in his letter to the Galatians in these words (5:17): "The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other." Christian Science has brought this conflict to a climax by unveiling God, Spirit, as the only Life, and by exposing the falsity of sentient matter, the belief that life is in the flesh. By revealing good as one infinite, indivisible Mind, Christian Science proves the unreality of the corporeal senses, which seem to be part of an individual's consciousness, and which are cognizant only of matter.

Bringing peace and comfort, Christian Science impersonalizes the upheaval produced as Truth destroys error. Under the marginal heading, "The great conflict," Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 288), "The suppositional warfare between truth and error is only the mental conflict between the evidence of the spiritual senses and the testimony of the material senses, and this warfare between the Spirit and flesh will settle all questions through faith in and the understanding of divine Love."

Our Leader's dispassionate explanation lifts the interpretation of the world's unrest above the ordinary one of quarreling personalities, antithetical ideologies, and nations warring for material advantage, and shows the discords of today to be the carnal mind's supposed effort to maintain its false dream of life in matter in opposition to the resistless presence of Spirit, God. The struggle is suppositional, for God is All; and its outcome is inevitable; for evil is unreal, and Love provides the faith and understanding which prove its unreality.

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