We read in the Bible that when Jesus was crossing the Sea of Galilee with his disciples, "a great storm of wind" developed, and "waves beat into the ship." In desperate fear, the disciples sought his help. Then, we are told, "he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm." ^{See Mark 4:36-41.}

It was Christ Jesus' way of thinking and praying and living, all reflecting God, that brought the peacemaking power of divine omnipotence to bear upon the situation.

Jesus knew God to be our heavenly Father, the supreme power, the creator, infinite divine Mind, intelligent, orderly, loving, beneficent. In the light of Christian Science it can be seen how Jesus' works proved that evil cannot be a true presentation of divine reality; evil is only the result of false, materialistic belief, which must yield when faced with the understanding of spiritual Truth. Jesus could not consent to be part of the storm-picture; he represented the remedy for it. He never participated in evil; he healed it.

Likewise, when you and I refuse mentally to participate in evil's stormy pretensions and take our stand on God's all-present goodness, then our thoughts, reflecting the Father, consciously help to remedy evil. When we understand that man, as God's idea, is forever at peace in Mind and never any part of the stormy picture of mortal discord, we further the needed adjustments. We can face worldly wrongs with the "Peace, be still" of divine Love—and help to cause the winds of discord to cease for all mankind.

In her book Retrospection and Introspection, Mrs. Eddy writes of the Science she discovered: "Christian Science reveals God and His idea as the All and Only. It declares that evil is the absence of good; whereas, good is God ever-present, and therefore evil is unreal and good is all that is real. Christian Science saith to the wave and storm, 'Be still,' and there is a great calm." ^{Ret., p. 60.}

Man in the true essence and reality of being, is not mortal but immortal, emanating from God. He is Mind's idea, God's expression! His genuine substance is not matter but spiritual consciousness, reflecting all the imperishable goodness and beauty of Spirit, Soul, divine Love. This is how God is knowing us, and this is how we need consciously and wholeheartedly to see our fellowman.

We need to maintain without reservation that in the kingdom of God, infinite divine actuality, there is no twisted, evil state of mind, no agency opposed to divine Principle, good. Appreciating more of the reality of divine good, we gravitate naturally toward all that is just and constructive and beautiful, progressing in our perception of man's native perfection as God's image. The real man, including all true ideas as Mind's conscious reflection, is satisfied, rich, lacking nothing. In the realm of divine reality, where man eternally dwells, there is no market for sin, hate, destructiveness, no mesmeric "pull" away from good. God's universe is one, not in conflict, nor fragmented.

Such is the true vision of man and creation with which we need most lovingly to enfold all mankind. In prayer we can wrap the whole world in our arms with the sense of divine Love's uplifting, healing power! As we do this, each prayer of each one of us will exert the mighty power of the Christ, Truth, which heals. To the degree this is done—and every individual on earth does have his or her part to play—warring will fade from the human scene, terrorism and cruelty will diminish, calamities will be averted. As mankind awakes to the divine fact of universal brotherhood, hurtful, prejudicial classifications of our fellowmen throughout the world will cease and exploitation will no longer occur. What joy to know that when God's kingdom is come on earth "as it is in heaven," no one will be left ignorant, hungry, or forsaken, and aching hearts will be comforted.

Staggering though the work before us seems to be, the objective of peace for the world does not represent an impossible, Utopian dream. It is not only a practical possibility but an imperative necessity. Persistent, understanding prayer, welling up from an army of loving hearts, can open the way to achieve it, however gradual the process may be.

When the Boston Globe asked Mrs. Eddy "what the last Thanksgiving Day of the nineteenth century should signify to all mankind," she said (to quote part of her answer): "It signifies that love, unselfed, knocks more loudly than ever before at the heart of humanity and that it finds admittance; ... that the Christ-spirit will cleanse the earth of human gore; that civilization, peace between nations, and the brotherhood of man should be established, and justice plead not vainly in behalf of the sacred rights of individuals, peoples, and nations." ^{The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, pp. 264-265.}

This is a fundamental purpose in living—to contribute to the realization of peace on earth in order that the immense blessings of divine Love may be experienced in the lives of all men, women, and children everywhere, and that Truth's "Peace, be still" may be crowned in history with the triumphant report "And there was a great calm"!