In the autumn of 1960 a great gathering of world leaders took place. The scene was the General Assembly of the United Nations; the occasion, its opening meetings and the welcoming of fifteen new nations into its membership, making a total of ninety-eight countries of the world uniting in the hope of helping to bring peace and prosperity to mankind.
There were many tough problems to be solved in this great gathering of distinguished men and women; but the machinery for doing so was there, and the means for using this machinery was also there. Peace, however, seemed far away. Newspaper, radio, and television publicity headlined the clash of personalities and ideologies and presaged the failure of the Assembly and of its ability to achieve any helpful results.
A Christian Scientist was deeply troubled over the situation. "What can I do?" she asked herself, having in thought a verse from one of the hymns in the Christian Science Hymnal (No. 82),
