Among the fundamental facts first grasped by those embracing the study of Christian Science is this: that all law governing and sustaining man and the universe is inherent in the divine Mind. Also, earnest and faithful study soon reveals the fact that divine law operates entirely apart from human effort, will, or policy. So the chief concern of the Christian Scientist is the practical application of divine law in human experience, or the fulfilling of the law.
In his remarkable declaration to the Romans that "love is the fulfilling of the law," Paul silenced all questioning as to the fulfillment of law. What manner of love is this which Paul denominated the controlling factor in the fulfillment of law? To the Christian Scientist this love to which he referred is that holy influence to which Mary Baker Eddy ascribes divine power, when she writes in the textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 192), "Whatever holds human thought in line with unselfed love, receives directly the divine power."
The prayer of unselfed love invokes the spontaneous fulfillment of law; for thought purified of the desire to will and to do of itself has made room for the immediate operation of the divine power. Jesus, who came not to destroy but to fulfill the law, surpassed all earthly demonstrators of good. The reason for this may be summed up in the wonderful selflessness portrayed in his own words, "I can of mine own self do nothing;" and, "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do."
