Article October 11, 1975 Issue

World Peace Through Divine Law

JOHN R. PETERSON

On October 12, the day after the date of this issue, the Seventh World Law Conference will convene in the United States, in Washington, District of Columbia. This is an important activity of the World Peace Through Law Center, an international association of those who are convinced that the best opportunity for achieving world peace lies in the role of law in the world community.

As a lawyer and a member of this association I am committed to this most desirable objective. As an active Christian Scientist I am even more deeply and totally committed to this purpose—but from the standpoint of the practice of divine law. The two approaches are not inconsistent, because human law in its highest aspect is a tremendously valuable and helpful effort to understand and to bring to bear on human experience the operation of the immutable, all-wise, and always-just Principle, which mankind intuitively recognizes and acknowledges as God.

This has always been an active and vital objective of the Church of Christ, Scientist. The significant contribution to the cause of world peace made by the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, was recognized by her appointment as Fondateur of the Association for International Conciliation, an active world peace movement of her time.^{See The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 283-284;}