Article July 25, 1953 Issue

THE WAY TO HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIPS

MILDRED TABER CLARK

On the whole, humanity is more interested today than ever before in restoring, establishing, and safeguarding harmonious relationships between nations and individuals. Men are hungering for freedom from the incessant struggle with misunderstandings, conflicting opinions, and circumstances that claim to trouble mankind.

Christian Science declares that there is a sure way out of all human entanglements, perplexities, and woes. Through the understanding and application of Christian Science it is being proved daily that all apparently discordant conditions result from our ignorance of God and His divine laws of harmony, ignorance of man and his relationship to God. Christian Science reveals higher views of God and man, and as we comprehend the reality of good we see the consequent unreality of evil, discord of every nature. The understanding and utilization of the truth enables one to reject as unreal any evidences that the material senses claim as real in any phase of human experience. The way then, wholly a mental process, is unquestionably an unwavering recognition of Truth, of its power and supremacy in the affairs of men and nations, expressed in love, honesty, and justice. This way is practical, ever present, and ever available, unceasingly active, uninterrupted, and eternal. The long-sought world peace, and harmony in all relationships, must be the ultimate result of understanding prayer, of individual and collective righteous thinking.

Our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 131), "There is no error in Science, and our lives must be governed by reality in order to be in harmony with God, the divine Principle of all being." As the truths of reality unfold in our thoughts we understand that God, divine Principle, creates and governs the universe and man and that this creation is entirely spiritual, not material. Since God is all-harmonious good, His creation, under His intelligent control, is perpetually harmonious and right. From this it follows that discordant relationships do not exist in divine reality. Only Godlike qualities—integrity, trust, perfect judgment, alertness, ability, and dominion—are reflected in the consciousness of man. We must affirm and realize specifically and continually these truths that destroy the illusive errors which seem to cause fear and apprehension.

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