Article September 25, 1971 Issue

Are We Respecting Nature's Law?

NEIL MARTIN

Millions of men and women who love nature and seek to respect and preserve it are alarmed by its exploitation in the interest of scientific invention and industrial expansion. They are concerned over the pollution of the world's oceans and streams, by hydrocarbons, for example, and the pollution of the air by motor vehicle exhausts and smoke. They feel the threat of radioactivity. They are even beginning to deplore the brutal extermination of bird and beast for feathers and pelts or for mere sport, and the ravaging of forests without respect for conservation or replantation.

Yet thus far efforts to achieve solutions, even on a small scale, have been only slightly effective, in spite of the efforts of devoted individuals and of a growing recognition of the danger by the governments of nations.

Does not this ever-increasing menace present a challenge that the student of Christian Science may not ignore in his daily prayer for a happier world? Indeed it is a problem that, with his growing understanding of God's handiwork, he feels he can help resolve. To that end he may be led anew to the first chapter of Genesis, in which mankind is assured for all time that God, Spirit, creates the spiritual heavens and earth, figuratively illumined by "great lights"^{Gen. 1:16;} that rule the day and night. All that we see as having life in the waters, on the land, and in the atmosphere, He creates in its true, spiritual estate—indeed every living creature including man, you and me, in His image and likeness. The chapter ends with the wonderful assurance that "God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good."

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