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SUPPORTING RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT

From the March 2010 issue of The Christian Science Journal


HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED what Mary Baker Eddy might say about some of the burning political issues of our times? Have you ever been tempted to quote her in support of one of your own political views? Actually, she provided a comprehensive answer about her politics in her published writings. Here is an excerpt from the Boston Post and reprinted in The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, page 276:

"Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy has always believed that those who are entitled to vote should do so, and she has also believed that in such matters no one should seek to dictate the actions of others.

"In reply to a number of requests for an expression of her political views, she has given out this statement:—

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