Editorial October 27, 1917 Issue

Law and Life

Annie M. Knott

Moses is usually thought of by Bible students as the great Hebrew Lawgiver. Indeed Mrs. Eddy refers to him as such on page 321 of Science and Health, where she explains in a wonderful way how he was prepared for what she names "the actuality of Science." To this she adds, "Matter was shown to be a belief only." The student of Christian Science will readily see that without an understanding of the actual demonstration of truth he could not have given to the world the divine law as voiced in the Ten Commandments, and the Mosaic law as found in the Old Testament.

It is deeply significant to read in the thirty-fourth chapter of Exodus that when Moses was on mount Sinai in communion with the Mind which governs the universe, and while he was receiving the divine law which was addressed to humanity in the Ten Commandments, he was without material food for forty days and forty nights. The record reads: "He did neither eat bread, nor drink water." According to material sense he would undoubtedly have presented an appearance of having passed through a most severe ordeal, but the very opposite of this is to be found in the statements which follow. We are told that when he returned to the children of Israel his face shone so that they could not look upon him, and he was obliged to put a veil over it. This is a wonderful lesson for the student of Christian Science, and shows that if we commune with God and with true desire study His law, knowing at the same time the nothingness of materiality as the basis of our support in any direction, we too shall gain that fuller sense of Life which will be manifested in health and strength and be a sign of the power of divine Truth to all who are prepared to accept the truth of man's being.

Farther on we read that after many years of faithful and strenuous service in leading the children of Israel toward the promised land Moses was separated from them, and although the record reads that he died, to the Christian Scientist this means that he was ready to advance beyond any of his people, and it certainly could not mean death in the ordinary sense of the word, for, as we read, he again went up into a mountain to commune with God and to have a vision of the promised land, which must have meant something far above and beyond what the human eye could see or material sense cognize. We read that Moses was "an hundred and twenty years old" at this time, but we are assured that "his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated." The record goes on to say, "And there arose not a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face."

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