The Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), a study ordered by the executive branch of the United States Government, graphically conveys the urgency of taking immediate and effective steps to alleviate certain aspects of the pressing and complex problem of racial strife. Of course, the race problem is not new, nor indigenous to the United States. It is and has been practically universal for centuries. Even where there is racial homogeny, one finds a history of discord between cultural subgroups, and between social divisions within these groups.
The Christian Scientist is unusually equipped to contribute to racial harmony through daily, consecrated, scientific prayer. He realizes that the fetish of racial history and tradition establishes false partitions that divide mankind and attempt to confuse, frustrate, and prevent them from discovering their true selfhood in the image and likeness of God.
The noble status of man is eloquently stated by the Psalmist in the following verses: "What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? ... Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet."Ps. 8:4, 6;
