Editorial January 22, 1955 Issue

WORKING FOR THE WORLD

Helen Wood Bauman

To succeed in any undertaking, one needs to comprehend the conditions confronting him. To work effectively for the world through Christian Science, one must grasp world problems in their metaphysical aspects. For instance, while political and economic confusion seems to derive from complex human situations, Christian Science shows this confusion to be the result, basically, of false views of God.

Men often believe in no God; or else they conceive of Him as a magnified human person rather than as divine Principle. They think of man as a mortal, subject to material laws and limitations, rather than as God's image, dwelling in Spirit and governed by God's will. But a true sense of God and man alone can reform mankind and bring peace to the world.

Christian Science further explains the world's struggle as a clash between spiritual sense and material sense, two opposite modes of thought which comprise the dualism of the human consciousness. Mary Baker Eddy makes this observation under the marginal heading "The great conflict" in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 288): "The suppositional warfare between truth and error is only the mental conflict between the evidence of the spiritual senses and the testimony of the material senses, and this warfare between the Spirit and flesh will settle all questions through faith in and the understanding of divine Love." Spiritual sense, the consciousness of God and His creation, demonstrates the substantial nature of good, the government of God, and the power of the moral and spiritual force emanating from Him. On the other hand, material sense, the consciousness of matter and evil, originates, worships, and aggressively supports matter, which Science exposes as nothing more than illusion.

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