The seventh beatitude, or blessing, contained in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount should be of particular significance to Christian Scientists: "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God" (Matt. 5:9).
How imperative that we ask ourselves whether or not we are aiding the cause of peace in a period of world confusion and restlessness! Material attractions, personal demands and obligations, urgent problems of one sort or another, all tempt the Christian Scientist to center thought upon narrow self-interests, forgetful of broader opportunities and obligations. And yet every enlightened Scientist is needed to think and act with unselfed wisdom and love to help through prayer in harmonizing differing interests, governments, and ideologies.
How can we become world peacemakers without first gaining our individual peace through understanding man's unity with his divine Principle, God? The Christian Scientist, correctly identifying his true being as the spiritual child of God, is overcoming the warring elements of personal, mortal selfhood. Thus he becomes a peacemaker within himself, his community, his nation, and the world. He strengthens his defense against the aggressive evil suggestions of a supposed but actually nonexistent mortal mind. From the standpoint of omnipotent Truth, he recognizes all error as unreal and hence powerless. He proves the familiar words of our great Master (John 8:31, 32), "If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."
