It is almost a quarter of a century since many nations engaged in a great war "to make the world safe for democracy." Yet, today, the suggestion is insistently presented that democracy is in greater danger than ever—that it has failed and has proved unable to cope with current social and political problems. Evidently the lesson is yet to be learned that democracy is not to be saved by warfare or by the imposition of human will, but through spiritual growth.
Our great Leader, Mrs. Eddy, clearly realized the importance of democratic government. She says in "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" (pp. 246, 247): "The Magna Charta of Christian Science means much, multum in parvo,—all-in-one and one-in-all.... Essentially democratic, its government is administered by the common consent of the governed, wherein and whereby man governed by his creator is self-governed."
Christ Jesus set a consistent example. His teachings are run through and through with democratic ideals, notably his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew, chapters 5 to 7). One of the main planks in that platform of scientific democracy is the Golden Rule, the rule upon which all human action involving others is rightly based.
