Article April 21, 1951 Issue

WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT WAR

LEONARD T. CARNEY

Responsible thinking persons today are gravely considering impending conditions in world affairs. The safeguards of former years appear unreliable. What sort of world, economically and otherwise, the children of today will look out upon at the close of the present century is a grave query in the minds of many. In the absence of satisfying material answers and the consequent necessity for a spiritual solution, Christian Scientists have the momentous opportunity of showing the practical application of scientific Christianity.

A quotation from Shakespeare used by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, is, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." It has been well said and is becoming generally recognized that it is in the minds of men that wars are made, and likewise it is in the minds of men spiritualized by Christianity that peace finds its germination. Freedom from war, disease, disaster, crime, and all conflictive situations must come through an improved state of consciousness with the individual, and then in the general thinking of mankind. The scientific fact is that Spirit, God, is omnipresent and omnipotent. When one's thought rests in God, then consciousness is above the plane of conflict, destruction, and fear.

However, it would not do to ignore the conditions so palpably apparent in the world today, any more than it would be right to make a reality of them. Christian Scientists should not isolate themselves from unpleasant conditions, but they should look upon them as challenges by which to prove the supremacy and solving power of divine Mind. The dispersal of Noah's descendants at the tower of Babel illustrates the destructible nature of evil when opposed by righteousness. He who would build materially to the skies will ultimately be cast down, as was Lucifer from heaven.

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