There is a demand today for men and nations to coexist peacefully and harmoniously. This demand will not be met through a compromise with evil, the acceptance of evil as real, or the adjustment of oneself thereto, but through the conscious and constant demonstration of man's coexistence with God.

In "Unity of Good," as part of her answer to the question, "Do you believe in man?" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes (p. 49): "I believe in the individual man, for I understand that man is as definite and eternal as God, and that man is coexistent with God, as being the eternally divine idea. This is demonstrable by the simple appeal to human consciousness."

Christ Jesus, who fulfilled prophecy as the Prince of Peace, understood and acknowledged his at-one-ment with God. This was the basis of his harmony and peace and his demonstration thereof. To the foes who were questioning him as to his authority and identity, he replied (John 10:30), "I and my Father are one."

His opponents, however, did not understand this and would have stoned him for what they considered to be blasphemy in his claiming oneness with God. Then the Master said, "Though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him."

Christ Jesus claimed his coexistence with God, with perfection, and claimed man's coexistence with perfection for others. This understanding healed the sick. He knew that man's harmony, health, and peace emanate from God and coexist with Him. By his conscious oneness with God, Jesus was able to show forth the evidence of man's coexistence with good.

Man eternally experiences and manifests peace and harmony, which are divinely bestowed and enduring. However, an advancing understanding of God's power and of man's relation to Him is requisite in order that the human individual may experience peaceful coexistence with his fellow men.

God is all good, the infinite All-in-all. He is all-harmonious Mind, Life, Spirit, Truth, Principle, Soul, and Love. God's attributes are wisdom, intelligence, justice, mercy, love, and many others. Man, the image and likeness of God, embodies all of the divine attributes, and all ideas are at peace and harmony in the universe of God.

When faced with what seems to be a discordant relationship in the home, in business, in school, in the government, or in international affairs, one should turn to God and lift his thought to the fact of man's coexistence with God, divine Principle. He should weigh his motives and be sure that they are in accord with divine Love. They should be pure and selfless, established in humility and love, with the desire to bless his fellow men.

Knowing that God, the one Mind and intelligence, is omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient, one will see that all of God's ideas are God-inspired, God-directed, and harmonious. The practice of patience is often requisite to demonstrate harmony in human relationships. One must wait sometimes for harmony to be manifested as an ever-present fact.

Some years ago a man and his wife, both of them Christian Scientists, rented a cottage for the summer in partnership with another couple, who were not Scientists. It soon appeared that the two couples had different opinions and tastes in many things. Furthermore, it was learned that the woman who was not a Scientist had been subject to states of coma which had often caused inconvenience to her and to her household.

The Christian Scientists took counsel together and prayed for patience and love to see the situation to a harmonious conclusion. They knew that they must constantly be conscious of man's at-one-ment with God and that no breath of criticism should abide in their thoughts. These words from Hymn No. 316 in the Christian Science Hymnal stayed with them:

They kept their thoughts at one with good by remembering under all circumstances that God is Love and that He loves all. Gradually all the differences were resolved, and the woman expressed good health throughout a most enjoyable summer.

The belief that good and evil can coexist or co-operate is the teaching of the serpent. Good and evil, Spirit and matter, light and darkness, never commingle or exist conjointly. Right methods and wrong ones cannot blend or have harmonious results. Right ends do not justify wrong methods. Such a belief of commingling is the result of false education and can do nothing.

Human will cannot change the unalterable harmony of God and man. No expression of human will, either by oneself or by another, can alter in any respect the fact that man coexists with God, infinite good. This can be demonstrated in the orderliness, harmony, and beauty of our human relationships.

God is the one infinite, all-encompassing Truth. Man knows the truth and expresses it because he is the image and likeness of Truth. In the same way man has eternal life and love because he is at one with and reflects divine Life and Love.

Man, coexistent with Mind, infinite Spirit, knows no matter in which or by which he can be limited. At one with Principle, man is ever expressing obedience to divine law. Man's individual identity is complete, perfect, changeless, because he expresses Soul. Coexistent with God, man abides in peace with all of God's ideas.