Many long-standing segregative attitudes have been crumbling and dissolving. Nevertheless, in many parts of the world integration remains a remote ideal.
But Christian Science teaches that integration describes more than a distant Utopia amalgamating, and ensuring equal rights for, human beings. Human integration hints the present spiritual unity of God's creations, the one divine Mind's individual spiritual ideas. This spiritual oneness is an eternal reality, individually and collectively demonstrable now in human experience through greater realization of true brotherhood, justice, and unselfed love. Despite slow improvement in social conditions, men are ever free to express their individual spiritual oneness, or unity, with God's allness.
Though Christ Jesus was a Nazarene Jew in a Roman's world, he achieved immortal greatness. He perceived the infinite possibilities of man in God's image and likeness, the equal rights of real individuality, and he progressed step by step to heights of realization yet unsurpassed. And his follower, Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, though she was a woman in a man's world, succeeded in her long and arduous struggle to reinstate his healing method.
