Our work as Christian Scientists is naturally concerned in large part nowadays with various aspects of the war. It is clearly our privilege to know and prove that the power of God is not limited in relation to any of these aspects.
Take first the arguments that present themselves in regard to individuals humanly near and dear to us who are engaged in the war. Are we to concede for a moment that their status is what it appears materially to be? Here we must watch that we do not accept illusory sense testimony, but keep to the divine facts. Any one of these who mean so much to us is really an idea of God. Where is he? Where he should be; that is, in God. Has he gone anywhere? No. Is he separated or separable from good, or from us? No. Is he subject to any hazard or distress? No.
We need not hesitate to be absolute about all this. We have everything to gain for both ourselves and others by keeping to the spiritual facts. We can know on behalf of anyone for whom it is our business to work in Christian Science that he cannot be exposed to evil, that his nature as an idea of God excludes the possibility of evil where he is and evinces the presence and adequacy of good.
