Article June 18, 1966 Issue

"Violence shall no more be heard"

MARY RETTA TITUS

Today the thought of violence reaches us through many avenues. Entertainment and news media so often voice incidents involving acts of violence that they are accepted as part of the present-day mood instead of as errors to be overcome. Sometimes also peaceful and calm ways of living are disdained as outmoded and to be passed by in favor of exciting, tense, material ways of thinking and acting.

And yet when the human mind finds itself in trouble, it values and yearns for peace, having found that peace includes real happiness and contentment and true rest. The book of Isaiah describes the coming of the Christ into the violent times of that day and foretells the effect of the Christ, Truth, upon error in the passage, "Violence shall no more be heard in thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise."^{Isa. 60:18;}

Christian Science teaches that God is infinite good. There is nothing in all of God's perfect universe of Spirit to disturb the peace of man. He lives and has his being in good and needs nothing but that which comes to him as the heir of divine Mind. His wealth of spiritual ideas is his riches from God. Every child of God is heir to the Father's infinite store of good. Therefore there is no need of violence, no need to contend with one another, for all share the Father's blessings.

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