Article April 25, 1994 Issue

Bringing out unity

Louis Edmund Benjamin

At one of my company's factories there was a lack of sales, and the transport contractors who dispatched our loads had insufficient work to keep all their vehicles active. They started poaching loads from each other, bribing dispatch staff to give them work, and bickering with each other. Also, many had purchased trucks on the basis of work related to our sales forecast, and they now had financial commitments but insufficient income to service their debts.

The situation came to a head. Yet before we all sat together at a meeting in an attempt to resolve the problem, I had prayed about the concept of man's link with his Maker. I reasoned that man's status as God's spiritual likeness is one of unity with his creator, and because there is only one creator, one genuine cause, or Principle, which is totally good, there can be only one effect —good. The inharmony, then, was really an outcome of the false belief that we could be separated from the source of all good.

A racial question also had to be addressed through prayer, as there were black, Indian, and white contractors, and it was being claimed that the white contractors were being favored. So I endeavored to see that the expression of God's qualities was not related to a particular physical characteristic but was natural to all. Striving to behold man as God's perfect image, following Christ Jesus' example, I affirmed that I was dealing only with intelligence, wisdom, impartiality, orderliness, truthfulness, justice, tolerance, and so forth—that Godlike qualities were all that could be expressed. As soon as the problem was disassociated from the differences in personal, physical appearance, it became easier to see the truth of the situation.

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