Editorial April 28, 1962 Issue

Relationship

Carl J. Welz

Man is related to God. In the degree that we demonstrate this fact, we experience harmony in human affairs and health in our bodies.

Evil appears in human experience as the result of mortal belief wherein relationships are separate from the divine relationship of God and man. This belief says that people are related to each other through blood or marriage or choice or coincidence. This same belief says that one community is related to another because of geographical, economic, physiological, physical, or sociological ties—the communities concerned being neighborhoods, cities, nations; cells, organisms, organs of the human body; electrons, atoms, molecules; planets, solar systems, and galaxies. Evil disappears when the false sense of relationship is exposed and true relationship is understood.

In Christian Science we learn that we are not material creatures related to one another because of human factors; we are God's ideas, related because we reflect Him. If I stand in a room with twenty mirrors, each reflection is intimately related to the other. Yet one reflection cannot independently help or hinder another. But if my face shows joy or love or fear, each reflection shows the same quality.

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