Article December 13, 1919 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Bicknell Young, Charles E. Heitman, W. A. Gilchrist, Anna T. Robinson, A. G. Stevenson, Marion Gregg, Carolyn Gatenby, Florence L. Frank

Boston, U.S.A. (The Mother Church).—Judge Samuel W. Greene, lecturer; introduced by Bicknell Young, who said:—

Paul says, "The law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God," and he also declares, "Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law." In both instances the Mosaic law was referred to, but all that the apostle said concerning it applies with equal cogency to everything that goes under the name of law. The Mosaic law was an attempt to interpret divine justice, and although it was immeasurably higher than anything previously given to the human race, it was necessarily limited, because, although the Israelites were the most spiritually advanced people of their times, even with them the conception of God was the of a severe judge, and law meant penalties and punishment.

With mankind to-day the same archaic views are more or less prevalent. Neither those who make written laws nor those who interpret them, nor those who accept material opinions, and thereby make the unwritten laws that largely govern mankind, have as yet learned of the actual basis and nature of law. In fact, it is only through the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy, who declares with unmistakable clearness the true nature of law in the words, "God is divine Principle" (Miscellany, p. 116), that mankind has been enabled to gain the right concept of law. This concept has appealed to thinkers in all walks of life. It has particularly appealed to lawyers, because the socalled principles which underlie the law indicate an eternal Principle as their true basis and substance. These and other events serve to indicate the great and encouraging but quiet revolutions that are taking place in thought and experience, both individually and collectively.

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