Article March 19, 1966 Issue

"The law and the gospel concur"

WILMA L. ROBINSON

Christian Science reveals that the straight line of obedience to the Ten Commandments and to the Sermon on the Mount is the shortest distance between the forsaking of depraved material beliefs and the attainment of the spiritual facts of being. Students of this Science are admonished to adhere strictly to the spirit and the letter of the law of God and the gospel of Christ. In the words of the book of Revelation (22:14), "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."

A prayerful study of the Ten Commandments and of Christ Jesus' Sermon on the Mount reveals a beautiful and practical blending of law and gospel. Through the ages the thou-shalt-not of Hebrew law, coinciding with the Christly blessed-are-ye, has brought to human experience a sanctifying and purifying of the fleshly sense of self. Today this divine coincidence appears in the healing efficacy of Christian Science. In her Message to The Mother Church for 1902, Mrs. Eddy states (p. 8), "The law and the gospel concur, and both will be fulfilled."

Of the First Commandment, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" (Ex. 20:3), Mrs. Eddy writes in Science and Health (p. 340), "The divine Principle of the First Commandment bases the Science of being, by which man demonstrates health, holiness, and life eternal." This commandment demands that we have one God and love Him supremely. It further demands that we acknowledge no other than spiritual truth, life, substance, intelligence, and love. Having one God, one infinite good, we can demonstrate the universal brotherhood of man and see every individual as loving his neighbor as himself.

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