Article July 14, 1986 Issue

The basis for a better world destiny

MADGE HEYWOOD

Visitors to Rockefeller Center in New York City are impressed by an imposing mural in the Main Lobby of the RCA Building by the British painter Frank Brangwyn. It portrays the artist's impression of Jesus delivering his great Sermon on the Mount.^{Matt., chaps. 5-7 .} To me it seems that the Master's immediate contemporaries are shown listening intently, but the attitude of succeeding generations as depicted in the lower portions of the panel suggests a total disregard of his teachings. The mural bears this inscription: "Man's ultimate destiny depends not on whether he can learn new lessons or make new discoveries and conquests, but on his acceptance of the lesson taught him close upon two thousand years ago."^{Alan Balfour, Rockefeller Center: Architecture as Theater (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1978), fig. 281 .}

Those teachings, first given by Christ Jesus, would seem to have been largely ignored, or set aside as impracticable. Yet they are as applicable and necessary today as they ever were. The message is to all mankind, and it has been reiterated in the teachings of Christian Science.

It has been said that Christianity has failed to solve the world's problems, but has it really been tried? To have one God, one Mind, and to love one's neighbor as oneself are commands that form the basis of the Golden Rule. This rule, if practiced universally from this basis, would ensure healing and peace for mankind.

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