The word "isolate" is rooted in the Latin word for "isle." But telephone, radio, and airplane have taken the isolation out of place. Isolation is not the result of situation or location, but of a state of thought. To be isolated is to believe something untrue, namely, that one is shut off. This has led in some sections to still another false belief, namely, that one is not interested in or concerned with the affairs of distant nations. But both these unhealthy states of thought may be healed by sound ones, and the arguments destroyed on a world-wide, as well as on an individual, basis.
Christian Science has healed many by demonstrating that their ailments were false states of thought. The truth is that God, Spirit, is Mind, and that He creates and maintains man, who is a spiritual idea, necessarily one with God. The oneness of God and man is a fact because of the inseparability of cause and effect. Jesus declared this fact when he said (John 10:30), "I and my Father are one."
How does this apply to problems of isolation? Since man is one with God, man is necessarily one with man. Jesus prayed (John 17:21). "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us."
