Editorial April 1, 1950 Issue

ONE FAMILY

Helen Wood Bauman

Many long for family life. To them it presents the assurance of changeless affections, the joy of mutual interests, congenial pastimes, security, and certain welcome. The Psalmist was thinking of human needs and of God's mercy when he sang the poignant words (Ps. 68:6), "God setteth the solitary in families."

Good family life is a strong bulwark of society. It provides many advantages, possibly the best of which is the opportunity for educating the young in ways of steadfast morality and thus in the strength of character that resists temptations to sin. Christian Science uplifts the human institution of family life and purifies it, for it destroys the evils of dissension and separation that would beset it. Mary Baker Eddy says in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 102, 103), "Christian Science despoils the kingdom of evil, and pre-eminently promotes affection and virtue in families and therefore in the community."

And Christian Science does more than this. It reveals the divine sense of being in which God is understood as the only parent of man, and His harmonious and spiritual ideas as comprising the one real family. No one is left out of this family, for it is the universal brotherhood of God's sons. Each of us, in his true being, belongs to this great family and has a rightful place in its activities. In order to demonstrate membership in the Father's family, however, and to enjoy its advantages, we need to acknowledge God as All and to express His impartial love. We need to realize that mortals, bound to fleshly bodies and human relationships, represent only a mythical sense of man, which would hide the one universal, God-controlled family that belongs to reality and to eternity.

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