Editorial June 22, 1963 Issue

Facing International Problems

Carl J. Welz

Christian Science is a religion of Love. The practice of Christian Science demands the unselfed love which willingly examines international problems for the purpose of giving oneself in prayer for their solution in a way that will bless all concerned.

Scientific prayer is based upon an acknowledgment of God as the Supreme Ruler of the universe, including man. It acknowledges further that the real man is God's perfect image and likeness. Facing the elements of the problem, then, this prayer separates the real concepts of God and man and government from the unreal concepts. It denies as unreal the mortal sense of government, which presents man as a mass of mortals subject to the whims of other mortals. It replaces this false concept with the truths of God as the only Mind of man, the only Principle governing man, the only Spirit motivating man, and of man as God's child, responding joyously and without rebellion to His perfect will.

Obedience to the demand of unselfed love removes any reluctance we may feel to examine the details of the problem before us. But our analysis cannot stop with the self-satisfaction gained from having placed the blame. If it does stop there, our analysis is incorrect. If the blame is correctly placed, mortal mind will be found to be the guilty one. Our own lack of alertness to what mortal mind was trying to do may have contributed to what appears to have been the failure of present government or past government to accomplish what it should have accomplished or to express the alertness it should have expressed or to take the action it should have taken.

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