Let us get together on this matter." This is a colloquialism that seems to have found a permanent place in daily speech. There is a continual striving among people to get together and find unity of thought and purpose on some issue of human living. It may be an adjustment of family differences or a question of international boundaries. Is there a dependable basis on which men can get together and from which all interests can be justly and amicably settled? Decidedly yes. Such a basis is found in divine Principle, the scientific understanding of which unites all men through individual at-one-ment with that Principle which is God. This is the substance of that remarkable prayer of Christ Jesus recorded in the seventeenth chapter of John.
This prayer was made not for his immediate disciples alone, but for all who should believe on him. "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. . . . And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one." There is no mysticism or miracle in this prayer, rather is it a statement of the spiritual fact declared throughout the Scriptures that there is one God, who is Spirit, and man made in the image and likeness of Spirit, reflecting its infinite goodness and resources.
In getting together on this basis of divine Principle we must have a clear understanding of the nature of Principle, God—an acknowledgment of His infinitude, His oneness, His goodness and power, and man's inseparability from Him, the perfect reflection of His divine nature. Mary Baker Eddy, in her sermon entitled "The People's Idea of God" (p. 13), says: "This all-important understanding is gained in Christian Science, revealing the one God and His all-power and ever-presence, and the brotherhood of man in unity of Mind and oneness of Principle." Man in unity with Mind means man reflecting the intelligence, power, and dominion of Mind, possessing the affluence, freedom, and goodness of Mind; man inseparable from the activity and perfect performance of Mind. Here alone is the intelligent and sound basis of cooperation among men, the settlement of disputes, and the harmonizing of diverse aims and interests.
