Writing of the joy she felt because of the progress of the Churches of Christ, Scientist, in a certain American city, Mary Baker Eddy said, "A great sanity, a mighty something buried in the depths of the unseen, has wrought a resurrection among you, and has leaped into living love." And then she defined this "something" in these words: "It is unity, the bond of perfectness, the thousandfold expansion that will engirdle the world,—unity, which unfolds the thought most within us into the greater and better, the sum of all reality and good." In the next paragraph she added: "This unity is reserved wisdom and strength. It builds upon the rock, against which envy, enmity, or malice beat in vain." These inspired statements are found on page 164 of Mrs. Eddy's book "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany."
The world needs the sanity that is unity, and Christian Science is advancing it by the ever-expanding knowledge of God's infinitude and the perfection of spiritual man. It insists that men need not struggle over their differences, but can resolve them by proving through Science that God is the one Principle of all being and that He unites His universal family of ideas in a mutual knowledge and expression of good. Evil can never disrupt this unity, and its claims to do so must be seen as delusive.
There is no sanity in divisiveness either among individuals or among nations; and the disunity that claims to weaken the social structure of mankind through disagreements of nations, racial hatreds, and personal discords is certain to be healed as the influence of Christian Science broadens. Each can begin in his own heart to prove more perfectly that divine Mind is All and that its purity and goodness are reflected by every spiritual idea that Mind embraces. This will stop the destructiveness that would tempt one falsely to judge and bitterly to criticize others, thus spreading ill will. It is only through such individual self-discipline that a bulwark of unity will be built up in the world as a protection against the lawlessness of unenlightened thought, until the time comes when all men will acknowledge Christ, God's ideal, and demonstrate the universal unity of Mind's ideas.
