TODAY, when nations as well as individuals are seeking escape from the varied and menacing presentments of worldly chaos and upheaval, it is reassuring to consider Mrs. Eddy's statement in the textbook, Science and Health (p. 18), "Jesus of Nazareth taught and demonstrated man's oneness with the Father, and for this we owe him endless homage."
"Oneness with the Father." These beautifully simple yet profound words repudiate every phase of evil's aggressive propaganda that man is a helpless victim of human circumstances. Man's true being is inseparable from Spirit, God. Because Jesus "taught and demonstrated" this oneness by precept and example, all of us may individually prove our oneness, or unity, with God. And our progress will be in proportion to our fidelity to the course he charted.
To human sense one may be tempted to yield to the suggestion that he is lonely, shut off from all that is good and worthwhile, or that he cannot rise above limitation, pain, sorrow, fear. Error may seem to be, to act, to govern. It may even try to erect a wall of separation between the creator and His creation. But there is no such wall. There is only the false claim that man can be imprisoned within the confines of material sense. Yet in the midst of every aggressive argument the student of Christian Science can through consecrated prayer claim the eternal presence. With the spiritual understanding that unfolds as the result of such prayer, he can prove his unity with his source and thus cast out that which seeks to deny his true being and the allness of God.
