Editorial March 16, 1929 Issue

Obedience to Moral Law

Duncan Sinclair

Christ Jesus' reply to the one who asked him, "What good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?" was, "If thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments." Although the Master taught the potency of love to bless and to heal, and entreated men to love God with all their heart and their fellow-men as themselves, he did not cease to proclaim the value of obedience to the moral law. For well he knew that obedience to spiritual law necessitates obedience to moral law, and that spirituality can never be attained except through strict regard for what is right.

Christian Science inculcates the highest morality upon its followers. Not once in her writings does Mrs. Eddy give the slightest countenance to evil thinking and evil doing. It is true that she constantly refers therein to the unreality of evil, in the light of the allness of God, good; but never does she make light of sin, never does she fail to point out the value of morality in helping to bring about and to sustain harmonious, peaceful, happy, healthy conditions. She writes on page 125 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Moral conditions will be found always harmonious and health-giving."

Keeping this in remembrance, Christian Scientists are desirous that the children who come under their care should be instructed in moral as well as in spiritual law, and taught obedience thereto. What scope there is here for the exercise of patience, love, and enlightened understanding! And it were well if the instructors of the children, be they their parents or their Sunday school teachers, would first define to themselves what exactly is meant by the terms "moral" and "moral law." To be a proficient teacher one must know what one has to teach.

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