Though, as the result of wars and rumors of wars, unsettled governments, seeming chance and constant change, our times would appear to be more perilous than those of previous generations, yet Christian Science offers us a refuge beyond material reasoning, far above human understanding, where thought is lifted to the spiritual sense of being.
The belief of the individual in discord and disaster tends toward the universal acceptance of the inevitability of these very conditions. As, however, he turns from materiality to spirituality, and spiritual being is more clearly understood, harmony is proportionately brought into the experience of mankind. Mary Baker Eddy makes this plain where she says (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 255): "That which is formed is not cause, but effect; and has no underived power. But it is possible, and dutiful, to throw the weight of thought and action on the side of right, and to be thus lifted up."
Today there is great need for alertness on the part of all students of Christian Science. We need to be very sure that we recognize the present universal upheaval for what it is, and realize that we are not warring against our fellow men, but against the seeming power of evil to outweigh and supersede the universal law of divine Love. Paul, in his epistle to the Ephesians, said, "We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Then he spoke of where sure protection is to be found, saying, "Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand."
