Article January 8, 1977 Issue

"Be a law to yourselves..."

MARY BRETZ REED

Nothing can seem more disheartening than to feel we're boxed into a situation or condition over which we have no control.

Yet the Bible points out in various places that God gave man dominion over the works of His hands. Through the study of Christian Science one begins to learn that the supremacy of divine law makes it possible to reject supposed laws of matter—of disease, limitation, decline—and refuse to become their victim. One witnesses the power of unseen spiritual laws of health and harmony as he learns truly to think in terms of divine law.

Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, emphasizes the importance of siding with divine law in the following statement: "Christian Scientists, be a law to yourselves that mental malpractice cannot harm you either when asleep or when awake." Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, p. 442; Mrs. Eddy is said to have given this sentence a great deal of thought and consideration before adding it as the conclusion to the chapter "Christian Science Practice." See We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Fourth Series (Boston: The Christian Science Publishing Society, 1972), p. 97; She evidently felt it was so important to the well-being of Christian Scientists that she requested her followers to give daily attention to it. See The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany, p. 237;

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