Q. Can a Christian give a vote at elections, or take part in
government or law business?

A. No; participation in election, government, or law business
is participation in government by force.

Q. Wherein lies the chief significance of the doctrine of
non-resistance?

A. In the fact that it alone allows of the possibility of
eradicating evil from one's own heart, and also from one's
neighbor's. This doctrine forbids doing that whereby evil has
endured for ages and multiplied in the world. He who attacks
another and injures him, kindles in the other a feeling of
hatred, the root of every evil. To injure another because he
has injured us, even with the aim of overcoming evil, is
doubling the harm for him and for oneself; it is begetting, or
at least setting free and inciting, that evil spirit which we
should wish to drive out. Satan can never be driven out by
Satan. Error can never be corrected by error, and evil cannot
be vanquished by evil.

True non-resistance is the only real resistance to evil. It is
crushing the serpent's head. It destroys and in the end
extirpates the evil feeling.

Q. But if that is the true meaning of the rule of non-
resistance, can it always put into practice?

A. It can be put into practice like every virtue enjoined by