Editorial December 8, 1980 Issue

Spiritually quickening our sense of environment

GEOFFREY J. BARRATT

Environmentalists often clash with developers and commercial interests. The arguments on both sides have been widely ventilated in the media.

But the metaphysically Christian approach to environmental challenges—and they touch all of us—is the true answer for the individual, and ultimately for everyone. Spiritually seen, what is God-made is safe. Knowing this will begin to bring radical and helpful changes to our sense of where and how we live. Alongside the marginal heading "Divine nature appearing," we read in the Christian Science textbook by Mary Baker Eddy: "So-called mineral, vegetable, and animal substances are no more contingent now on time or material structure than they were when 'the morning stars sang together.' Mind made the 'plant of the field before it was in the earth.' "^{ Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 509;}

Conflict of clashing interests is the result of having a merely physical view of the universe. Confusion—whether in our own lives or the community at large—expresses the contradiction of both good and evil in human thought. But through the Christ, the idea of divine Love, we can uplift our thought.

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