Editorial December 12, 1925 Issue

God's Law of Righteousness

Ella W. Hoag

All through the Bible there runs a golden thread which links rewards with righteousness. Men have seen this gleam and have always longed so to lay hold of it that its promise would be proved true in their own lives. Students of the Scriptures have generally believed that obedience to God's law of righteousness should always result in blessing. At the same time they have often found it difficult to reconcile their own experience therewith. Live as righteously as they thought they could, there has not always resulted the reward they have desired, if indeed there has appeared to be any reward at all!

It does not take very deep thought to see several reasons why there has been this disappointment. The very familiar one, of thinking first of the reward, is to-day too plainly seen to be an entirely selfish one to deceive the humble Christian very long in his effort after righteousness. There has, however, also been much misunderstanding as to the exact nature of true righteousness. Until Christian Science was revealed, the eyes of men were largely closed to the great truth which the entire Bible teaches: namely, that there is no true righteousness but that which is of God. Starting as they have with self instead of with God, men have fulfilled Paul's saying, "They being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God."

It is with joy that the Christian Scientist awakens to the glorious truth that God's righteousness is the only righteousness there is. Immediately, this knowledge begins to free him from any uncertain sense as to what is and is not righteous. Delivering him from the belief that righteousness is something he must create for himself, the claim of false responsibility commences to drop away and he can turn to God with his whole heart to find the correct and perfect understanding of right, which has always existed, and with which, as the child of God, he has always been united.

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