Article January 22, 1927 Issue

Loyalty

THOMAS C. PERINE

A Dictionary gives the root meaning of loyal as "law," and a loyal person as one who is "faithful to law." Every earnest Christian Scientist is putting the questions to himself: Am I loyal? Am I faithful to God's law? Am I striving to be more loyal by increasing my spiritual understanding through constant study of Christian Science, which our Leader, Mary Baker Eddy, defines in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 1) as "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony"?

We are loyal in proportion as we realize that since God is Mind, we can in reality have no intelligence apart from this one and only Mind. We possess the qualities and attributes of God by reflecting them. Divine Mind has established this law of individual reflection. And we are faithful to this law by realizing our inability to do anything as of ourselves, but that, as Paul says in his epistle to the Philippians, we "can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth."

One phase of the law of divine reflection is the law of divine justice. On investigation it is found that justice is that which is done in conformity to divine law. Since God is just, and since He creates everything as His spiritual reflection, it follows that He creates everything in conformity with this divine law of reflection. To be loyal to the law of justice is to be faithful to Truth, and to know that in reality man lives and acts in conformity to God's law of divine reflection. To be loyal to the law of divine justice we must deny materiality, including dishonesty, deceit, hatred. We must exercise spiritual sense, and realize the harmony which God's ideas reflect to each other. In this way only can we be loyal to the law of divine justice.

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