Christian Science teaches its followers how to make practical in their daily lives the great fact of the unity which exists eternally between God and His perfect creation. Through the persistent acknowledgment of God as Spirit and of man as His perfect, spiritual idea, inseparable from Him, men and nations are brought into harmonious relationships.
It is only when mankind listens to the whisperings of the carnal mind that disunity, separation, and division arise between individuals and nations. Unity among Christians gives them great strength and influence as on the Day of Pentecost, when men were filled with such inspiration and power that their message, although spoken in one language, was understood by men of different tongues.
In that period the Christians lived together "with gladness and singleness of heart" (Acts 2:46). In such unity there was great spiritual strength which resulted in healing works. Our beloved Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (p. 162): "Strength is in man, not in muscles; unity and power are not in atom or in dust. A small group of wise thinkers is better than a wilderness of dullards and stronger than the might of empires."
