Article September 8, 1956 Issue

GOD'S LAW OF CONTINUITY

JEAN M. SNYDER

Questioned as to how she would define Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy answered (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." Mrs. Eddy had glimpsed this law in an hour of intense physical suffering. When she turned to the Bible for comfort, she received so clear a vision of the power, perfection, and goodness of God and His healing law that it healed her. Later she began to write down what had been revealed. The revelation continued to unfold to her until it became an entire book which she named "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures." She published this textbook that all the world might share its blessings and learn how to demonstrate God and His law of universal good.

Christian Scientists study this book, for it reveals God and His law of the continuity of good, which Jesus and his followers utilized. Paul wrote of this law (Rom. 8:2), "The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." God's law of continuous, uninterrupted harmony and perfection becomes efficacious humanly as we become spiritually conscious of it. To those who perceive it, it is the evidence of eternal, ever-present, unutterable Love, forever the same throughout eternity.

The source of all good is God, and the law of good operates to give good to all permanently. "'Good is my God, and my God is good. Love is my God, and my God is Love,'" declares Mrs. Eddy (Miscellaneous Writings, p. 206). These spiritual facts are constantly being repeated by the genuine Christian Scientist. The loving God, whose law governs all creation, is an eternally good creator. If evil really existed and were actual and powerful, it would belie His infinitude. The discords and tragedies of material sense express the thoughts and beliefs of a mind apart from God. Evil beliefs seem to become a law only through the consensus of human opinions.

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