Article October 30, 1948 Issue

VOTING STRAIGHT

HERBERT E. RIEKE

A woman who was becoming interested in Christian Science informed a friend, a student of Science, that she was a devoted supporter of a certain political party. Her father and grandfather had both been members of this party, and ever since women had been given the vote franchise she had consistently "voted straight." With much vigor she asserted that she believed in her party and the principles for which it stood. If someone said anything against her party or its candidates, she arose in immediate defense. If anything favorable was said in regard to the opposition party, she was vociferous in denunciation.

Her friend assured her that she could and should vote the way her conscience guided, and that the Christian Science church does not dictate to its members how they should vote. When asked, "What are your politics?" Mary Baker Eddy answered (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 276), "I have none, in reality, other than to help support a righteous government; to love God supremely, and my neighbor as myself."

The Christian Scientist observed, "If you would be as loyal to God, the divine Principle of all true being, and to the idea of infinite good as you are to your political party, you could move mountains." The woman and her friend then considered what absolute loyalty to God means, and they sought to demonstrate it in daily affairs. In a very short time the woman was completely healed of her strong political bias and of a disease which the medical profession had proclaimed incurable.

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