Editorial May 24, 1913 Issue

"WHICH LOVE THY LAW"

Archibald McLellan

"Great peace have they which love thy law," sang the psalmist, "and nothing shall offend them." The prophet Isaiah voiced an even higher sense of possible attainment in his assertion, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee." Why, then, when for ages the weary and heavy laden, the troubled and anxious, have longed for peace and rest, have they failed to avail themselves of the comfort and security which might so easily be theirs were they but willing to comply with the requirements thereto. Is it not that like wayward children they prefer to indulge their wilfulness, even to the suffering of its attendant penalties, rather than to yield that loving obedience to divine law which ensures safety and peace.

Yet a longing for peace is truly "the heart's far cry,"—peace of mind and body, surcease from the discord of sense which would still hold mankind in bondage, though he who came heralded by the angelic chorus of peace and good will declared to his followers, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you;" and bade them be neither troubled nor afraid. This is the peace for which the followers of the Master have striven, and in large measure have gained, so far as salvation from sin is concerned; but it remained for the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mrs. Eddy, to sound the triumphant note of a full salvation, to open blinded eyes to the present-day possibility of the Christ-healing that bade the sick and the afflicted be whole, the demonstration of a sound mind in a sound body, the restoration which makes "every whit whole."

"Glory be to God, and peace to the struggling hearts!" Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 45), for "Christ hath rolled away the stone from the door of human hope and faith, and through the revelation and demonstration of life in God, hath elevated them to possible at-one-ment with the spiritual idea of man and his divine Principle, Love." This is the secret of that air of peace and serenity which has come to be recognized as the hall-mark of the Christian Scientist, the reflection of that all-embracing Love which wills good, and only good, to its every creature. Obedience to the law of God, the keeping of His commandments, the fulfilling of that which Jesus characterized as the greatest of the commandments, to love God with all one's heart, mind, and strength, and his neighbor as himself, has demonstrated again and again the coming of the kingdom of God in the hearts of men, the dawn of a world-wide peace which shall signalize the overcoming of all that is unlike good, the destruction of all error.

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