Article September 7, 1929 Issue

God's Law Universal

CHARLES A. GRIFFITH

The paths by which the seeker after Truth and the sick, the sinning, the sorrowful, enter Christian Science are as varied and numerous as are the individuals who thus seek spiritual satisfaction or surcease from pain. While in every instance the goal is the same, the human reasons for striving for that goal may be different. There comes a time when in one way or another interest in Christian Science is awakened. One is in need of that which material methods cannot supply,—health, substance, righteousness, a sense of peace and harmony,—in short, a clearer understanding of the laws which govern true being, though one may not, at the time, so analyze his longing.

In "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 1) our Leader defines Christian Science as "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony." The student does not progress far in the study of Christian Science before proving, in a degree, the accuracy of this statement; and it must become apparent to him that since God's law is the law of harmony which Christian Science demonstrates, then it must be universal law; and, being universal, it governs all that truly exists. All that God creates is obedient to His law. Since God's law is "the law of good," obedience to His law is manifested in health, harmony, and life eternal.

Mankind in general accepts the fact that mathematics is an exact science, immutable and universal; yet it inclines to the notion that existence is accidental, mutable, and personal. Now mathematics is no respecter of persons: its laws, changeless and universal, are always available for the solving of mathematical problems and for the correcting of errors. Surely, then, this is no less true of the Science of being! God is the divine Principle of all real being; and His unchanging laws are ever available for the salvation of mortals, saving them from their own undoing, rescuing them from their own false beliefs and the consequent manifestations of sickness, sin, and death.

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