Article February 19, 1927 Issue

Christian Science, the Law of Life

EDMUND HOGG

In all ages men have sought a law of life, an unchanging law to live by. But many and varied have been the beliefs that have influenced their living. The most primitive races have exalted something outside of themselves, and have usually upheld some sort of code. The pagan philosophers extolled the virtue of stoical mental qualities. In drinking from the hemlock cup, Socrates acknowledged a higher sense of life than the physical, and paid no homage to human fear.

It is generally admitted that humanity can know no higher ethics than the Christian, summed up in love for God and man, which the Saviour taught. Varying human views of Jesus' rule of life have led men to profess a Christianity wherein differing sects and creeds have been established; and these views continue even in the present day. It remained for Christian Science to present the scientific law of life, which Jesus continually demonstrated; because in Christian Science God is revealed as perfect divine Principle. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect," the Master said. There can be no invariable rule, unless it have Principle to govern it. Even human experience supports this. The greatest and most encouraging experience that can come to mortals is to be healed by Christian Science, because this is the sign of man's perfect Principle with them, "of Immanuel, or 'God with us,'—a divine influence ever present in human consciousness," as Mrs. Eddy has written on page xi of the Preface to "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," the Christian Scince textbook.

This experience regenerates and purifies, as well as heals physically; and thereby we touch and handle things unseen to the material senses. When this revelation is received, God no longer appears to be a theoretical being, but the supreme, loving Principle of all real existence. Thereafter, the human sense of life must be viewed from a new standpoint, and the necessity is seen to bring every thought into subjection to the Principle of Christ. Indeed, no other course can be followed; for salvation, including health, is the compelling gift of God. Christian Science, reflecting the divine compassion of the Master, explains the enigma of mortal existence, and we are enabled thereby to say in the spirit of those words of the Samaritan woman who talked with Jesus at the well, "Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" And Christian Science reiterates the tender word of Jesus to the sinner, "Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more."

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