Editorial July 28, 1928 Issue

Right Partisanship

Albert F. Gilmore

In setting forth the postulate that God is infinite good, and hence that all is in reality good and its expression, Mrs. Eddy has rendered easy of solution many of mankind's otherwise troublesome problems. "God is natural good," she writes on page 119 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "and is represented only by the idea of goodness;" thus, since God is Spirit, good in its scientific sense is spiritual, that is, a quality or attribute of Spirit, God.

The good manifest in human experience is our highest concept of the divine, and is, even at its best, a material sense of good. Just as our concept of divine Love has its expression in purest human affection, in mother love, for example, so our nearest approximation to the goodness which is divine comes from allegiance to our highest sense of good. Moreover, while mortals hold to material selfhood as man and to matter as substance, as they still quite commonly do, goodness will be expressed in terms of that which meets mankind's present need. It will, however, as thought is spiritualized and rises, approach the spiritual quality of goodness, that which belongs to God.

In the performance of our duties, both civic and social, there arise many occasions when it becomes necessary to choose between two or more exponents of good, neither of whom fulfills even our highest present concept of good, although apparently they are the best available under existing conditions. Example of this is found in the election of public officials. The candidates for whom ballots are to be cast may not be ideal, may not represent all of good that we could wish, yet offices must be filled in order that the affairs of government may be carried on. What shall we do? It seems that our Leader has made the way plain for us. Support of the best at hand is our manifest duty. Thus the candidate who holds most firmly to truth, to the highest sense of good, deserves and should have the support of all who are striving to establish orderly and righteous government.

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