While the ultimate triumph of right over wrong is certain, there is great need at this time for each individual to assume responsibility for his own part in securing peace for the world. Present conditions are a challenge to all right thinking people to arouse themselves to active support of the truth. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the Christian Science textbook,"Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 450), "The Christian Scientist has enlisted to lessen evil, disease, and death; and he will overcome them by understanding their nothingness and the allness of God, or good."
The task of maintaining peace is primarily individual, and the need is more than ever urgent for individuals to awaken to their responsibility on this score. Among the inspired statements of the Master, uttered in his Sermon on the Mount, is the following: "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
This statement is not directed to a particular group, nation, class, or sect. Nor does it imply the necessity of going outside one's present sphere of activity to promote world peace and brotherly love. Moreover, Jesus' statement was neither a command nor a rebuke; it was an assurance of blessedness for all who seek to establish peace.
