Article March 3, 1934 Issue

True Administration

ROYAL A. GUNNISON

The word "administer" comes from the Latin administrare, from ad meaning to and ministrare to minister or serve. A dictionary defines "administration," in part, as "the service rendered, or the duties assumed in conducting affairs; complete direction; management." Are we admitting that there is any administrator besides God, or that there is any administration that does not come under God's law? Do we always remember, when we make a statement about some new or changed administration in human affairs, that the only power, the only sovereignty, is that of God, and that His administration is unchangeable?

"The rule of perpetual harmony,—God's law" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, by Mary Baker Eddy, p. 381) is the law which controls the universe. It is the one all-governing law. What, then, is any seeming change in administration? There can be no basic change, for the basis of true government is God's law, operating through His infinite capacity to conduct, direct,and control everything that really exists. As this is understood, the administration, the direction, and management of spiritual law can be utilized in the various forms or means of government in human affairs, whether large or small, local or international.

Many people the world over are confronted with the fear of losing their positions because of some change in the administration of business or affairs. Since, scientifically speaking, there is but one administration, that of divine Principle, how can we believe that our place is determined by a set of circumstances over which we have no control? True place is not dependent upon material conditions, but upon the realization that all the avenues of good are ever open wide to all. Our only real position is found in the demonstration of our spiritual relationship with God. "Man is the expression of God's being," our Leader says (Science and Health, p. 470). Therefore man is ever in his right place expressing the one Mind; otherwise, Mind would not be fully expressed. That any true idea could become useless would be as impossible as it would be for the number eight to become no longer useful in mathematics and be discarded. It is not difficult to see that without the number eight mathematics could not be fully expressed. Thus it is that God is ever expressed through man.

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