Editorial February 11, 1950 Issue

"DIVINE METHOD OF WARFARE"

Helen Wood Bauman

Christian Science reveals the true knowledge that saves from all evil, and its adherents keep their peace of mind in an age when methods of warfare beguile human interest and the prophecy of Christ Jesus seems especially significant (Matt. 24:6), "Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars."

Christian Science insistently points to moral and spiritual might as the ultimate answer to the world's dilemma, in which each multiplication of destructive power is met with protective measures only to find that new inventions are ready to cancel out those measures. Christian Science reveals the dominion inherent in the understanding of God as the only power and as wholly positive, constructive, and creative in His nature. And it demonstrates the unreality of the carnal mind, which is entirely destructive in character—"a murderer from the beginning," as our Master described it (John 8:44).

War is the organized effort to destroy; and its victim is society, the organized effort to promote individual and collective well-being. War is the amplification or intensification of materialism, destructiveness, suffering, and death—elements which mark the carnal or mortal mind even in times of peace. To see the threat of war as the aggressive urge of impersonal, destructive force—the one evil—is one step in counteracting that threat, for Christian Science proves the forces of Spirit to be the only governing power of the universe, and they are good alone. To detect the unholy design of evil forewarns one and impels him to set about realizing the specific truths needed to reverse it. Ignorance of error is no defense against it. No one can afford to entertain a loose or false evaluation of evil's intentions. Much ground has been lost in the past because of the failure of individuals and nations to detect the vicious aims of materialism and forestall their development.

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