Editorial March 26, 1927 Issue

"The resuscitating law of Life"

Ella W. Hoag

On page 180 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" Mrs. Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, writes: "In Science one must understand the resuscitating law of Life. This is the seed within itself bearing fruit after its kind, spoken of in Genesis." To the earthweary,—weary of all the inharmonies, the sins and sicknesses, the fears and limitations which make up so large a share of mortal existence,—this thought-compelling statement, when understood, holds the promise of all good.

The Christian Scientist, who recognizes Mrs. Eddy as God's chosen revelator of the truth to this age, knows not only that her statements are always demonstrable, but that it is God's purpose that every individual shall prove them to be so. The Scientist therefore accepts the fact that there is a "resuscitating law of Life" which he must learn to understand and demonstrate. He recognizes that this law which Christian Science so clearly reveals is the seed which inevitably brings forth fruit after the very nature of Life itself; and since Life is divine Mind, he also realizes that he must dwell with the thoughts of this Mind if he would prove that the resuscitating law they express is controlling all his affairs and experiences.

What Soul-lighted vision is this, that the thoughts of Truth are always present for us to cling to, and that they contain the seed which is to bring forth a fruitage of untold good! We are not responsible for the seed; we are not responsible for the fruit—they are both forever safe in God's loving, omnipotent care; but we are responsible that we obey divine Mind by keeping this law of Life constantly active in our thinking. Every time we affirm a truth, God's resuscitating law is operating. It is at work, and therefore the word of truth we declare is all-powerful to bring forth its own rich results. Jesus said, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." While Jesus never claimed that any words of truth were his apart from God, he nevertheless knew that because they were of God their perfect fruition was inevitable. He knew that the word of Truth can never be separated for a moment from the seed within itself, which must produce fruit after its own divine kind.

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