The highest purpose of any government should be to bring out righteousness, reciprocal harmony, and prosperity between individuals and nations. In order to achieve this, governments and peoples need to express highest morality, unerring wisdom, impartial justice. Since no human being is flawless enough to assume personal government over his fellows, one who finds himself in a position of authority on a large or a small scale needs first and always to bring his own thoughts, motives, and actions under the government of God, designated in Christian Science as divine Principle. Because of their grave responsibilities, those who hold high positions in government, education, industry, need the support of true thinking on the part of Christian Scientists all over the world.
Propaganda favoring atheism and its alleged advantages, or merely material high-pressure productivity, constitutes an attempt to substitute material standards for the spiritual, human government for the divine. In regard to this attempt, the rebuke of Christ Jesus is apt: "If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!"
In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mrs. Eddy writes (p. 189), "The government of divine Love derives its omnipotence from the love it creates in the heart of man; for love is allegiant, and there is no loyalty apart from love."
