FROM the time that the healing works of the Christian religion ceased to be accomplished until the discovery of Christian Science by Mary Baker Eddy the term "law" appears to have been given scant consideration in connection with the worship of God. Law had been more generally considered in its so-called material aspect. When referred to in connection with Deity, the human mind had been prone to regard law as something mysterious and enigmatical, albeit inexorable in one particular decree—its decree of the certainty of death.
With the advent of Christian Science, however, the true meaning of law soon commenced to glow more brightly in human consciousness, and to-day spiritual law is being studied with much profit by continually increasing numbers of earnest seekers for Truth. Of particular importance is the fact that in Christian Science these seekers are learning that the law of God is the law of Life, not of death, and that it destroys only that which is opposed to the divine nature.
Christian Science shows spiritual law to be supreme over all so-called material law, and wholly beneficent in its ceaseless operations. He who understood spiritual law better than all others—Christ Jesus—rebuked the thought which failed to look beyond a material concept of law. To the hostile Jews he said, "Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law?" No doubt this was a shock to their self-righteousness, for the Pharisees considered themselves rigid observers of the law of Moses. They, however, had failed to see that because Moses received the law through divine inspiration, there must be a far greater significance attached to it than could be discerned from its merely literal interpretation. The error of such interpretation was pointedly illustrated by the Master when the scribes and Pharisees brought to him for judgment a woman taken in adultery. His treatment of the case was designed to open their blind eyes. Spiritual law never operates to harm, or to destroy aught but erroneous beliefs; and it is fulfilled in compassion and love.
