Article May 29, 1971 Issue

Christian Science and the Sciences

NEIL MARTIN

As perhaps never before in history mankind are questioning the traditional values on which they have depended for a useful present and a brighter future. No matter what periodic reverses and defeats they may have weathered during the centuries, they have, for the most part, maintained a hope, founded often on the promises of their varying religious, philosophical, or governmental heritage.

Recently such faith has waned, and solutions for most social and economic problems have been sought in developing technological research and exploration, often very arresting. These material means have been proudly displayed not only by the technicians themselves and the leaders of industrial and commercial enterprises but by the officials and teachers charged with the education of the rising generations. But they no longer elicit total confidence as the means of achieving a happier future for the race. Indeed, the result seems to be growing frustration on all levels of society, rebellion at times approaching anarchy.

How can those of us who, however, are deeply disturbed by the current turmoil but in no way tempted to engage in it help ourselves and our perplexed brethren, young and adult, achieve the mental equipoise needed to distinguish the cause and effect that appear to be material from the true, infinite spiritual cause and its multitudinous effects that are ever spiritually mental? Isn't this the challenge to thinkers and workers that will eventually have to be met in order to stabilize human society?

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