Arizona republican., 1919-02-17
Prejudice
Crhe Christian science Monitorl

,The Christian Science Monitor) |
 During the past four and half ! years a wonderful opportunity has been | afforded to those nations which have | ranged themselves on the side of prin- ! ciple in the struggle just concluded to one another. With the sinking Of all differences apparently l great or apparently small and the con ceptration on one great objective. the nations have been able to see in one another the real and consequently the abiding. As the weeks of the war heightened out into months, and months and months into years; as communication between nation and ma ton became more and more restricted; as the causes of ancient differences sank more and more into the back ground of thought and the stories Of high handed actions, real or imaginary, found less and less place in the world s press. till they were. by common con- sent. almost entirely eliminated, the nations were left free to climb 10 the ton of the mountain and to see the world and each nation of it more nearly as it is in principle than ever before. For this must be recognized and ad- mitted. before any further step is pos
 sible. that the view Qf men and nations as it apepared to the most exalted thought at the height of self-sacrifice, when the voice of petty differences was hushed and self-seeking lost in self denial. was the real view and the view which must ultimately be realized.
 At first the sinking of differences was a very conspicuous process. lt was spontaneous enough and immediate enough. but there was a fine point O honor about it. Rights prcjudices, differences of opinion. national tenn peraments. were all incontincntly placed on the shelves of concern. but not a few strove to intimate that this was only a temporary eXpedient. We shall join with you, they said, in the great struggle. but when it is over we shall return to our sheep Weeks however passed into months and months even into years. The dust grew very thick on the shelves and many of the questions reposing there | became frankly obsolete. dealing as | they did with matters left obviously so ! far behind that men would be siaI to l forget them. Thus it went on until a | few weeks ago, until the end of the war. ard now that the war is ended | there has come the effort in some quarters and the temptation from all quarters to reach down from the dusty shelves of the past some of the old paraphernalia of the old world and se it up. with scarcely a garnishing. as the setting for the new. Men ar. be-
 ginning to move about once agan
 They are permitted once again tc gC
 where they please and see what they
 please. They are allowed when thel
 have done all this to say what thel
 please. Now, therefore. is the time
 above all others, to watch. We Eav,
 been accustomed Co the vision of thu
 mountain top for so long that We hay,
 forgotten very largely what it was like
 as far as our neighbors are concerned
 to live with them in the valley. w.
 forget that those idiosyncrasies m ou
 neighbors which jared upon us in tn
 past were generally the things which
 in the last analysis, did not matter
 Arf 50, when. with the vision of hi
 real neighbor in his thoughts. a ma
 crosses over to that neighbor's country
 O renters in once more on the old foot
 ing into his house. and finds mavb
 that the things that did not matter hay
 changed but little. he is apt tO be dis
 pointed, perpleZed, and may ultimateI
 he led sadly astray.
 lt is just at this moment that tn , call is most urgent to make a stand : and it is just here that Christian Sci ence comes to the aid of humanity an shows how it is possible to make tn , stand. For Christian Science teache that God is what the Bible declare Him to be. life truth and love. tha ' God is infinite, that man is His imag
 and likeness. and that there c1nnc ! enter into the experience of manifesto