Article May 26, 1997 Issue

Resisting government corruption

Edwin G. Leever

A number of years ago my family and I were living in a suburb of a large city. I didn't pay much attention to the goings-on of our local government until I started hearing bad things about it—that officials were dishonest and doing a lot of things that were basically wrong.

I was appalled and angry. I thought cynically, "That's the way politicians are." What should I expect but evil shenanigans?

But because of what I'd learned in Christian Science, I knew I had to start praying to see everyone in my community as he (or she) really is—as the perfect, spiritual expression of God. As such, man, created in God's image and likeness (see Gen. 1:26, 27), cannot be a tool of evil or indifference.

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