Article October 16, 1995 Issue

A universal neighborhood watch

Eileen Edwards

In the quiet road where I used to live, we had a neighborhood watch. People took note of strangers in the area and kept an eye on their neighbors' homes to help prevent crime. When I read news reports of people in the former Yugoslavia attacking their longtime neighbors, stealing homes and possessions, I realized that this, too, was a call for neighborly watchfulness.

I remembered that Mary Baker Eddy comments in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures about the challenge of mental ferment and struggle as spiritual Truth dawns in a materialistic age: "During this final conflict, wicked minds will endeavor to find means by which to accomplish more evil; but those who discern Christian Science will hold crime in check. They will aid in the ejection of error. They will maintain law and order, and cheerfully await the certainty of ultimate perfection" (pp. 96–97).

Was I living up to these expectation? Not really. How could I do so? My study of Christian Science has shown me that man is the pure spiritual reflection of the one and only creator. This is the true nature of every man, woman, and child. Omnipotent God knows only good and never created an opposite, evil. The man of God's creating cannot possibly hate, because divine Love governs all true being. He cannot intend or commit evil, because the one divine Mind governs him. He cannot change his essential character, because his origin is the eternal, invariable Principle, Love.

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