For centuries humanity in general has been subjected to suffering on account of its mistakes, ignorant or willful. In spite of the inspiring and comforting statement, "God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved," humanity has been victimized through the ages by condemnation and self-condemnation. When, therefore, the actions of nations appear to be denying justice and mercy, and threatening general disharmony, the Christian Scientist, being avowedly a true thinker, should the more insistently be the advocate of Truth's omnipotent, redemptive power on behalf of one and all, under whatever circumstances. This constitutes righteous advocacy backed by divine Principle. Hence the Christian Scientist is called upon to put his whole weight of thought into the scale for redemption rather than for painful retribution, in which the innocent suffer for the guilty. In Science and Health (pp. 153, 154) Mrs. Eddy writes, "Neither sympathy nor society should ever tempt us to cherish error in any form, and certainly we should not be error's advocate."
The laws of God provide neither for devious, contentious methods, nor for the necessity for learning by one's mistakes. Even as the primal purpose of mathematical rules is not the correction of mistakes, but the accurate working out of every calculation, so the laws of God are not primarily remedial, though, when these laws are understood, they operate thus on behalf of stricken humanity.
The more persistently Christian Scientists of all nations bear witness to the harmony of the one spiritual creation and to the universal government of divine Principle, the sooner will the distrust and enmity between individuals and races, induced by the so-called carnal mind, be supplanted by the understanding and co-operation established and revealed by divine Mind. In this Mind there is righteousness enough to blot out the whole world's sin and enmity. "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous." This is the redemptive advocacy to be emphasized and reemphasized on behalf of all.
