IN human affairs covenants or contracts arise from the need for an established, definite procedure in the attaining to a particular result, and the agreement continues in force until the end in view has been reached. In order to insure results and the favorable outcome of the undertaking in question, the duties, rights, and tasks of each individual concerned are exactly designated and defined; and the participants by affixing their signatures acknowledge their acceptance of the terms of the covenant and the obligations devolving upon them. The parties to the agreement understand that a legal contract or covenant is under the protection of the law, and that its fulfillment can be enforced by the power behind the law.
Now it is clear that inviolable covenants can rest only upon an unchangeable, inviolable foundation. Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, points out the one true foundation when she writes on page 307 of her textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures": "Man was not created from a material basis, nor bidden to obey material laws which Spirit never made; his province is in spiritual statutes, in the higher law of Mind."
One thinks at once of the imperative demands of the Ten Commandments, and recalls the gentle but compelling doctrine of Jesus, as expressed in the Beatitudes.
