Article March 15, 1975 Issue

Annihilating Enmity

MARION H. BLACK

"We have met the enemy, and he is us!" exclaimed a shocked Pogo, an American newspaper comic-strip character.

Like Pogo before his sudden insight, many of us may have a misconception as to who our enemy is. We may believe an enemy, in the accepted sense of the word, to be one who seeks to harm us. We may see this magnified worldwide as nation warring against nation, or as hatred between races, or as neighborhood feuds. At first we may seem to be innocent bystanders. Eventually, however, most of us meet face to face those who appear to be interested in harming us, sometimes seemingly without cause.

But we do not have to accept this as our fate and suffer as helpless victims. We can take the offensive in consciousness. We can elevate thought above the arena of human conflict, which is as old as mankind itself, into the spiritual realm of God and His perfect creation and thus achieve everlasting victory. "For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds."^{ II Cor. 10:4;} In an article entitled "Love Your Enemies" Mrs. Eddy writes: "Who is thine enemy that thou shouldst love him? Is it a creature or a thing outside thine own creation?