Article March 29, 1958 Issue

WHAT ABOUT GOVERNMENT?

WILLIAM JAMES HAY

The remark is sometimes heard, "I do not discuss religion or politics." Why not? Certainly these topics deeply concern individual and general welfare and progress. Good government, the topic discussed in this article, should be and often is the aim of political activity.

Through gaining a spiritual concept of government, each one can do much to purify and strengthen policies of administration in the home, church, nation, and world. Asked what her politics were, Mary Baker Eddy said (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."

Christ Jesus urged the commandments to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself. Do not these commandments set forth the basis of righteous government? Jesus' policy was always to inspire the individual to higher ideals of living. He encouraged self-discipline and strove to promote the Christian ideal as given in the angel's message at his birth (Luke 2:14), "On earth peace, good will toward men."

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