Article October 8, 1960 Issue

Government and Election

LELA MAY AULTMAN

"Righteous human government of church or nation gives evidence to mankind that God is supreme"

What is government? It is not persons or political parties or even campaign speeches. Nor is one's government some human control outside oneself, by which one is ruled involuntarily. In reality, government is an activity of divine Principle, God, and it operates in each individual's consciousness. It is our recognition of and response to what the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, calls "the divine 'powers that be'" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 249). Her entire sentence reads, "Let us rejoice that we are subject to the divine 'powers that be.'"

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