As a group of young people sat around the glowing embers of a beach campfire, the conversation turned to a philosophical and intellectual discussion of the problems confronting mankind. Pessimism and fear pervaded their talk of the atomic bomb because of the lack of adequate defense against this seemingly powerful force. At this point, one of the group calmly and confidently said, "I think Christianity is the only defense."
The one student of Christian Science present had been silently listening to the discussion and felt a deep sense of gratitude for this remark. It was but one of the indications that mankind is now, more than ever before, turning to God and acknowledging Him as the only power.
Truly, the only defense against any material force is the practice of the pure Christianity taught by Christ Jesus, the Wayshower. The Christ, the spiritual idea of God which Jesus represented, is the ever-present light unfolding to human consciousness in all ages the truth about God and His creation. The Bible clearly declares that there is but one omnipotent God, who created all like Himself, good; that God is Love, and that He makes man in His image and likeness. It logically follows, then, that all power and all creation proceed from God and must be good; and that the real man, reflecting his creator, can know, receive, and express only that which partakes of the nature of God, Love. This being true, a false sense of creation, including the belief of man as mortal, must originate in the one evil— the carnal mind, or nothingness.
