Editorial September 20, 1930 Issue

"The perfect law of liberty"

Duncan Sinclair

Human existence sometimes seems largely to consist of a struggle between the forces of good and the supposititious forces of evil. Men are apparently having to choose continually between right and wrong, and in consequence an unceasing struggle goes on within human consciousness. When men are obedient to the law of good, harmonious lives are in evidence; when the so-called law of evil prevails, unhappy, inharmonious lives result. Similarly, obedience to the law of good ultimates in unselfishness, affection, kindliness, and health; whereas, subservience to the suppositional law of evil ultimates in lovelessness, selfishness, and very often ill health. Is there a way of salvation, a law of liberty for all mankind?

James, who knew the temptations to which mortals are subject, understood the way of salvation. He says in the first chapter of his epistle, "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed." There is, then, a "perfect law of liberty;" and it is the law of God, good, the law of Love.

Christian Science reveals the truth that in reality there is only one Mind, infinite good, divine Love, and that, therefore, there is only one real law active in true being, namely, the law of good, the law of Love. Further, it affirms that Mind is expressed in ideas, and thus that the real man is the idea of Mind. Consequently, Christian Science maintains that man, God's idea, is under the law of good, the law of Love. The situation, then, as it pertains to mankind becomes plain: it is that in reality only the law of good is operative at any time, and that there is no real law of evil operative anywhere. As soon as this is seen by men, the way of salvation appears, and liberty is experienced. Mrs. Eddy writes (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 229), "The so-called law of mortal mind, conjectural and speculative, is made void by the law of immortal Mind, and false law should be trampled under foot."

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