Article December 13, 1958 Issue

"LET THERE BE NO STRIFE"

MARGUERITE EMILY BUTTNER

Competition plays a certain role in business, in some forms of research, in the arts, and in academic studies. Through honest competition inferior products and poor services are often eliminated. Better records of achievement benefit all mankind. Yet often competition becomes strife or rivalry and results in jealousy, greed, self-glorification, or discouragement.

Strife and rivalry thrive wherever there is a belief in limited good. Only as mankind breaks through the belief of limitation are strife and greedy competition dissolved.

The student of Christian Science overcomes limitation as he changes his concept of man from a mortal to an immortal. Mary Baker Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 288), "Science reveals the glorious possibilities of immortal man, forever unlimited by the mortal senses." This immortal state is characteristic of our true selfhood as God's spiritual reflection.

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