Happy indeed is the student of Christian Science who recognizes in Christ Jesus his lawgiver; and happier still is he who translates the Master's parables into illustrations and interprets his miracles into demonstrations of divine law. All so-called natural sciences have been discovered or created by the recognition of uniformities or similarities of law and manifestation by those whose thoughts were tending in that particular direction, as in the case of Newton and Copernicus. Just so Mrs. Eddy, because of the purity of her spiritual thought, was enabled to find in the teachings and miracles of Jesus certain underlying laws, which led her up to the discovery by demonstration that they emanated from divine Principle.
Though it was open for any of the inhabitants of the earth to discover the law of gravitation and the order of the solar system, it remained for Newton and Copernicus to do so. So too, while it was open for any one to detect the operation of spiritual law and discover the Science of being, it remained for our Leader, whose thought was sufficiently exalted and spiritually pure, to perceive this divine truth which she subsequently named Christian Science, and of which she says, "I named it Christian, because it is compassionate, helpful, and spiritual" (Retrospection and Introspection, p. 25). How unspeakable must have been her joy when she realized that she had found in the ocean of human thought the "pearl of great price"! It is only as one begins to study the Bible with this new and spiritually scientific understanding, that he apprehends how its teachings, especially the words of Jesus, are enhanced with a divinely metaphysical glory and excellence.
As a lawgiver for human needs, we cannot help seeing how compassionately, lovingly, and naturally Jesus adapted his teachings to human capacity. He knew how men and women thought, and he knew that by appealing to their thought in a tactful way he could lead them up and out of a false sense of existence into the true understanding of being, from the unreal and seeming to the real and eternal. Because his teachings were divinely true, they have lost none of their inherent power and force with the passing years, but still excel all other teachings in that they are both natural and demonstrable. He is the Saviour of mankind, and he would save mankind today by logical appeal to its highest thought. It is because he knew human thought better than any one else that he could better legislate for human peace and happiness. That men have so largely failed to figure out their problems satisfactorily or correctly, simply indicates that in their blindness they have either refused or ignored the method which was laid down by this master lawgiver.
