The question of government and of laws through which government operates has for long deeply concerned mankind. Enlightenment and education have brought about a gradual advance from government based on ignorance, despotism, and selfish exploitation to the self-government of nations and freedom in many parts of the world. The progress and freedom gained by struggle and suffering through the centuries are today threatened with destruction by a system which, for the aggrandizement of the few, would plunge mankind into a measure of slavery, cruelty, and despair hitherto unknown.
To some nations freedom today is but a memory and a hope, yet the triumphant might of right will transform that hope into reality. We learn in Christian Science that nothing good can ever be lost or destroyed, despite the opposing evidence of mortal sense, and though the freedom, rights, and privileges attained by sacrifice, struggle, and love for mankind may in some sections seem to be but a memory today, yet they cannot be lost or destroyed by the mechanized might of evil, evidencing the will of mortal man.
The turmoil and destruction through which the world is now passing have arisen because men have tried to impose upon others their own human will and plan of government, in defiance of God's will and government. That there is a divine government is generally admitted, yet mankind believes that only the human sense of government can be attained upon earth, and that the divine is reserved for some uncertain future state of existence following the experience called death.
