Editorial October 2, 1954 Issue

PREVENTIVE WARFARE

Harold Molter

There is much being said and written today on the subject of defense. One question often raised is, "How shall the free nations of the world defend themselves against the growing military power of a threatened aggressor?" In answer to this question some individuals have proposed that a preventive war be waged against the nations whose evident purpose it is to conquer the world. Such a course of action does not take into consideration the basic teachings of Christianity and its fundamental proposition as revealed in Christian Science, namely, the allness—omnipotence —of God, Spirit, and the nothingness of matter.

The prophet Isaiah recognized God's omnipotent power when he wrote (31:5): "As birds flying, so will the Lord of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it." Not airplanes loaded with destructive bombs, but the ever-active Christ equipped with the swift pinions and power of divine Love furnishes the only true and enduring weapons of warfare and defense for all men and nations.

Christian Science teaches mankind how to wage preventive war. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with key to the Scriptures" (p. 234), "You must control evil thoughts in the first instance, or they will control you in the second."

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