Article January 20, 1945 Issue

The Truth About Law

PAUL KENNETH WAVRO

Today, perhaps more than ever before in human experience, we are confronted by numerous laws and regulations. We hear protests from one side that they are too stringent, and from another that they are too lax. It is beneficial to the student of Christian Science who desires to be law-abiding, to consider these rules and regulations from the standpoint of metaphysics. He has already learned that the first step in the application of Christian Science to any problem is to begin with God.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, in her wonderful definition of God found on page 465 of the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," says, "God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, Life, Truth. Love." It is natural to conclude that all true law proceeds from Principle, and therefore it would be impossible for any such law to be unprincipled or without Principle.

In her "Miscellaneous Writings" Mrs. Eddy has written (p. 206), "Growth is governed by intelligence; by the active, all-wise, law-creating, law-disciplining, law-abiding Principle, God." Thus, the Christian Scientist, aware of the action of this "all-wise, law-creating, law-disciplining, law-abiding Principle" in the government of man and the universe, acknowledges the absolute impossibility of chance or luck entering into Principle's unerring direction. He has learned, as did the prophet Elijah, that the "Lord was not in the wind:... the Lord was not in the earthquake:... the Lord was not in the fire" (I Kings 19:11, 12). He knows that these forces of evil are not forces or laws at all and are set aside and nullified by the true understanding of divine law and the application of this law to our experience. Proceeding from a God who is infinite good, law must be the force of good.

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