Editorial February 17, 1951 Issue

GOD'S LAW AND ITS EXPONENTS

Robert Ellis Key

When the liberties of a nation are threatened, the people of necessity strengthen themselves by defense. The laws of the land are framed to curb license and to safeguard liberties. Just laws are framed because the people require justice and because security is most surely found by obedience to constituted authority. Law demands obedience, and those who are obedient find law to be protective and remedial, not afflictive.

Mary Baker Eddy defines Christian Science (Rudimental Divine Science, p. 1): "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony." Thus in Christian Science we find the highest law, namely, the law of God, which holds complete jurisdiction in true consciousness. This law controls all motives, movements, and manifestations of Life and intelligence. Mrs. Eddy writes (No and Yes, p. 26): "God holds man in the eternal bonds of Science, —in the immutable harmony of divine law. Man is a celestial; and in the spiritual universe he is forever individual and forever harmonious."

Christian Science is not a doctrine informing us about law; it is divine law itself. When studying this Science we should remember that we are studying the subject of divine law, which is immutable and irrevocable. In order to enjoy health and harmony, which God bestows, we must be obedient to the divine rules of this Science and identify ourselves with God and His law of good. Our Leader knew her discovery to be a revelation in the realm of divine law, for she writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 107), "In the year 1866. I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science."

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