Article April 19, 1982 Issue

One Mind, one race, one fold

RITA HAYES HORNBEAK

Christ Jesus prophesied that "there shall be one fold, and one shepherd."John 10:16. Christian Science helps us to spiritually understand this prophecy and the possibilities of our beginning to fulfill it now in greater peace and brotherhood among all peoples of the world.

This Science reveals that God is universal Mind, Spirit. He is the creative Father and Mother of the entire universe, which is spiritual. As the Principle that is Love, God tenderly, eternally loves and cares for all His children. What a great and loving Shepherd He is! In truth, then, we are all related to God, the only real Mind, as His sons and daughters, His spiritual ideas. All is God, Mind, and His great family of perfect ideas, who, though infinite in diversity, dwell in harmony and perfect peace. In actuality, Science explains, there isn't a human race composed of mortals, either all alike or of different colors, cultures, tongues. The spirituality of man is the great, basic truth of being. In her poem "The New Century" the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, writes, "'Tis writ on earth, on leaf and flower:/Love hath one race, one realm, one power."Poems, p. 22

How quickly, sometimes, we forget spiritual truths when dealing with another, particularly those of races other than our own. Most individuals think of each other as mortal beings and of mankind as constituted of different kinds of mortals—Americans, Russians, Asians, black or white, and so forth. But mortality is a false concept of man, and so a mortal—whether sick or well, malicious or well-intentioned, light-skinned or dark-skinned—is a misconception. And this misconception of man is the foundation of all inharmony, including racial discord. It fosters bigotry, prejudice, suspicion, and racial violence. It ruptures human relationships and brotherhood everywhere whenever it is unchallenged by the Christ—the spiritual idea of sonship.

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