by Jules Cern

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Solving and Dissolving Problems

At this point someone might exclaim, "But there seems to be so much that is wrong in the world, so many problems to be solved. It is hard to determine which problem to tackle first!"

Perhaps this will help: A few years ago a forest fire was raging near a small city in Nova Scotia. All efforts to halt the fire appeared to be futile. When it reached the outskirts of the city, the fire department was able to run hose lines to a nearby river and pump water to the encroaching blazes. Even though they had several hose lines, there were so many trees ablaze they hardly knew which ones to tackle first. With all of their efforts, the fire continued to rage.

Finally, the firemen were ordered to change the nozzles they were using from the high-pressure, hard-stream types, to ones known as "fog nozzles". These nozzles sent clouds of dense, misty spray over the fire. They produced such a thick blanket of moisture, it cut off the oxygen from the flames, and the fire was extinguished.

How does this apply to a seeming multiplicity of individual and world problems? If we believe that there is one unlikeness of God, we are apt to believe that there are many unlikenesses of God. If we believe that there is one place where there is something besides God, we are apt to believe that there are many places where there is something besides God. One false belief kindles another false belief, until we hardly know which false belief to tackle first. Mrs. Eddy emphasizes this point in Christian Healing, where she writes, "Contending for the reality of what should disappear is like furnishing fuel for the flames." Accordingly, we must not approach each individual or universal problem as if it were some part of God's creation which has gone wrong. We do not have to aim hard streams of spiritual thinking at each individual belief that there is matter.

God's allness does not come in narrow streams, nor in limited quantities. The truth of being does not have to be pumped or projected. It is all, boundless, unlimited, and unopposed, right now, right here, everywhere, always. Then our acceptance of God's allness must be boundless and unlimited, right now, right here. Our entire mortal or atomic concept of the universe must be blanketed with the omnipresence of infinite Spirit, the only Life. The suggestion that there is any mortal or mortal mind to be the cause of, or to be the victim of hatred or suffering, must be blanketed with the allpervading, ever-presence of divine Love. We must blanket all sense of mortality, good or bad, sick or well, with God's allness. That which has no place in God's allness can have no place in man's experience.

The alert Christian Scientist does not shelve or ignore specific false beliefs. But only on the basis of the divine Principle of being, God's aliness, can he effectually dispel such beliefs.

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