Article June 23, 1934 Issue

God's Law of Restoration

KATHERINE ENGLISH

Christian Science declares that "all is infinite Mind and its infinite manifestation, for God is All-in-all" (Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 468). In this Mind, because of its ever-presence, there can be no loss, since loss implies forgetfulness or destruction, both of which are impossible to Mind, which creates, knows, and loves all that is real. A sense of loss is presented to human consciousness when, influenced by error, one believes good to be in matter—looks for health, prosperity, friendship, substance, and love in matter and personal sense.

If we are oppressed by a sense of loss, we may apply the law of God and find the good we are seeking; for this law, as it is obeyed, restores lost innocence and joy, lost health and strength, lost friendship, vanished love. These are found in the kingdom of heaven, where alone we can find the real and eternal. There they have always been, and there they are kept intact for us to claim, guarded by God's unchanging, powerful law, which is always at work, no matter what personal sense may falsely declare.

God's law is always in operation; it can be appealed to immediately. We see this illustrated in human affairs. If we are robbed, if our rights are interfered with, we appeal to the law which provides for the return of that which was lost. We proceed to seek for, to claim, and to identify our own in the place and manner which the law directs. How foolish to be too careless or lazy to apply to the law and to take the necessary steps to obtain its aid! Many of us have proved again and again that obedience to the law of God restores what is apparently lost.

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