PERSPECTIVE ON THE NEWS March 19, 1979 Issue

Dealing with political upheavals

Responding to internal and external forces that sometimes surface quite abruptly, governments and their relationships with each other are constantly readjusting. In recent months the political seismograph has registered several significantly sharp changes. Some internal tremors have overthrown governments. Others have brought governments into sharp clashes.

But political upheavals are not signals to run for cover. The world has urgent need of its calm, clear-thinking inhabitants—those who are wise enough to see events in a spiritual perspective. True stability in government—in all world affairs—is derived from God, divine Principle. As the Psalmist sang, "The kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor among the nations,"^{ Ps. 22:28;} and the degree of our understanding of this fact is mirrored in world affairs.

Now is a time that calls for deeper understanding of God and His universal government. The temptation to be shaken by political events or to have our attention mesmerically fixed on them should be resisted. Any value in what is happening lies in our being forced to come to grips with the scientific fact that God is the Principle of the universe and is perpetually governing it harmoniously.

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