Let us consider, for a moment, some possible headlines—ones that might have been written about events that concerned the lives of our neighbors, and possibly our own lives, directly or indirectly. "Record-breaking cold hurts peach crop," "Floods damage homes, spring plantings," "High waves erode beaches, demolish homes and hotels," "Industrial waste hurts fishing industry," "Attacks by terrorists increasing."
Can you and I do anything about the evils threatening our environment, causing damage to humans, beasts and birds, marine life, and the gifts of nature we so appreciate and would preserve? Yes! The Scriptures are filled with examples of the effectiveness of prayer in helping individuals, and even nations, realize dominion over the destructive forces of matter and mortal mind. The forces of divine Love, which protectively parted the Red Sea and enabled the children of Israel to walk on dry land, are ever operative—they are operative today. Love's forces have sovereign power and they are protective.
In the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health, Mrs. Eddy writes, "This material world is even now becoming the arena for conflicting forces." And in the same paragraph she adds, "The breaking up of material beliefs may seem to be famine and pestilence, want and woe, sin, sickness, and death, which assume new phases until their nothingness appears." Science and Health, p. 96.
