Now that victory in Europe and Asia has been attained and those responsible for making war are being brought to trial, it is well that, in the midst of the gratitude and relief which are quite naturally felt, we should consider what victory really means to us. Humanly speaking, there is far more to evil's claims than that which has been made manifest in the evil doings of a few misguided nations. Christian Science declares that evil is belief in a power, an influence, an entity apart from God, good; and that this belief needs to be mastered primarily in each individual consciousness. It is in our thought that the battle between Truth and error, harmony and discord, right and wrong, health and sickness, justice and injustice, has to be fought and the victory won.
In undertaking this Christian warfare let us never abandon the fundamental standpoint as set forth in Christian Science of the ever-presence and all-power of God, good, and the consequent powerlessness and unreality of evil. In "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 275): "The starting point of divine Science is that God. Spirit, is All in all, and that there is no other might nor Mind,—that God is Love, and therefore He is divine Principle."
If in our daily contacts we are tempted to forget our "starting point" and yield to the suggestion that we are in the midst of minds many, faced with difficulties, and living in a troubled universe where frustration is commonplace, let us remember that the evidence of material sense is not to be trusted. If only we will hold steadfastly in thought to the spiritual fact "that God, Spirit, is All in all, and that there is no other might nor Mind," we shall be able to face any and every situation calmly, knowing that man lives in the universe of divine Mind, where, to paraphrase the words of a hymn, His handiwork is shown in beauty, grandeur, order.
