One of the greatest problems facing the world today is that of finding a satisfactory solution to the wars and rumors of war that so constantly beset it. Are you and I feeling that as individuals there is little we can do to help solve so complex a problem? Such a temptation—for so it is—might delude us into a state of apathy and helplessness. It must therefore be challenged and resisted, since it is solely upon the thoughts and actions of the individuals who compose the nations that the welfare of the nations depends. We each have a very definite part to play and niche to fill in world affairs and in the establishment of universal peace.
In her work "Pulpit and Press" Mary Baker Eddy asks (p. 4), "Is not a man metaphysically and mathematically number one, a unit, and therefore whole number, governed and protected by his divine Principle, God?" And on the same page she says: "A dewdrop reflects the sun. Each of Christ's little ones reflects the infinite One, and therefore is the seer's declaration true, that 'one on God's side is a majority.' A single drop of water may help to hide the stars, or crown the tree with blossoms."
With these encouraging facts regarding the importance and indispensability of the work of the individual, may we not prayerfully search our thoughts and lives to see what we may contribute to the cause of international peace and freedom? In this work could anything be more comforting than the great spiritual facts which Christian Science has brought to light, namely, that God, good, is the only power and presence, that His universe is spiritual and perfect, and that man, made in His image and likeness, is incapable of sin, disease, and death?
