PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEWS October 8, 1979 Issue

To replace calamity with calm

News of calamitous happenings, shouting from the headlines, needs our compassionate attention. Recently a hurricane hit the Caribbean and devastated the Dominican Republic. A more recent hurricane, pounding areas in the southern United States, left many homeless and damage estimated in hundreds of millions of dollars. Drought in western India is reported to be affecting millions of people. An earthquake in New Guinea has left thousands homeless.

Humanity seems susceptible to brutal forces beyond its control. But such forces are counterfeits of genuine power. God is the one infinite force, exclusively causing and maintaining good. As this fact is more widely understood, destructive phenomena will diminish.

The prayers of those who perceive God's supremacy can forward that understanding and help minister to the immediate needs of disaster victims. Prayer acts to bring increasingly into view the reality of divine Love's care for man. Real being is the outcome of God, good, not of blind material forces. Man's harmony can never be shattered; his substance can never be consumed or ravaged. But this fact must be made evident. As our vision of divine Truth becomes clearer, we'll help close the gap between what spiritual sense knows is true and what mortal sense fears is true.

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