THROUGH Christian Science one gains a demonstrable understanding of man's relationship to God, good, and this understanding, honestly applied, is able to solve all the problems incident to a merely human sense of relationship, or intercourse. Perhaps there is no more appealing need than that of harmony, the removal of friction, between those whom circumstances have thrown together. These tormentors of the human race,—disparity of tastes, the clash of self-will, incompatibility, and the touchiness of personal sense,— will eventually give way before the unity, purity, and peace of the one Mind and its ideas, which cooperate in their individual expression of God's perfection. Thus Mrs. Eddy writes in "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (pp. 102,103), "Christian Science despoils the kingdom of evil, and pre-eminently promotes affection and virtue in families and therefore in the community."
Christian Science teaches every mortal how he may scientifically protect himself from being made the tool of the so-called carnal mind, which is always divided against itself, because it is devoid of intelligence, law, or Principle.
What, then, of one's daily intercourse with those who have not yet learned to turn to the one Mind for protection from the irritability, depression, anxiety, and personal antipathies which so constantly tempt the children of men? The scientific necessity is to declare unremittingly, and in spite of appearances, that there is but one infinite Mind; and to seek to realize this scientific truth on behalf of others just as much as on one's own behalf. Hence Peter writes, "Be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous;" and he also pleads for "unfeigned love of the brethren." Patiently learning to reflect universal love, even to the seemingly undeserving, helps to free them from the evil traits which claim to constitute their heritage as mortals. In short, Christian Science restores and safeguards harmony in human relationships by turning one away from the contemplation of mortal personality to the harmonious facts of each one's spiritual identity in Truth. There is assuredly some good expressed through the average individual, even though he may style himself an infidel; and whatever good he expresses is born of God. It is a glimpse of our real brother; and to that glimpse of his real identity we must cling, for it is one with the good derived from God, the same good to which we ourselves are humbly drawing nearer. All that is good and true unifies; and that which does not unify is not true.
