It has been truly said that there is no evil situation or condition in which a mortal may find himself, where the law of God is not available to help him,—no disease that cannot be healed; no sin that cannot be overcome; no danger, no threatened disaster or calamity, from which one cannot be saved by the understanding and application of the divine law. This is necessarily so in the very nature of things, for God is omnipotent and God is good, and what we speak of as the law of God could be nothing more or less than the expression of God's will or purpose. The law or will of God, who is good, must be potent to overcome all evil; so to the extent that we understand the divine law and apply it, or, in other words, submit ourselves to the divine will, the power of God must overcome all evil in our experience.
Humanity at large believes in God. However widely different the varying concepts of God may be, there is a strong, clear conviction underlying all human thought that God is an omnipresent power for good, and that if mortals could only understand His law or will they might be saved from all human ills. Christ Jesus demonstrated the power of the divine law to destroy all evil. His works were not miraculous in the sense of being violations of law, for he said he came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. And not only did Jesus himself understand and demonstrate the law of God, but he taught his disciples to do the same; and to-day Christian Science is doing, in a measure, the works that Jesus did, not in violation of divine law but by understanding and applying that law.
Jesus said, moreover, that when the "Spirit of truth," or understanding, was come upon his followers, they should do greater works than he did, —that with even a grain of faith or understanding they should say to the mountain. Be removed and cast into the sea, and it would be done. And so Christian Scientists realize that divine power is sufficient to destroy all evil, and their demonstration of its law is limited only by a limited understanding of it.
