TODAY the attention of the news media is largely taken up with the consideration of world affairs. While these may be objectively reported, the summations are made merely from knowledge of mankind's history, coupled with good human reasoning. The aim of the student of Christian Science, however, is not to arrive at human conclusions about world conditions but to understand scientifically the facts underlying them.
Paul's words are a veritable exhortation to us when he writes (I Cor. 3:16), "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" Because the Christ, the spirit of God, dwells in us, we can cease viewing world events from the standpoint of material sense testimony.
In any situation—whether in sickness, in business, in church, or in our human relationships—we are confronted with what the world, mortal mind, as Christian Science designates it, believes. In world events too we are faced with mortal mind's belief, which attempts to use many individuals, yes, thousands of them, for its purposes. Our work is first to meet and master in our own thought the world belief of evil.
