ON the first page of "Rudimental Divine Science" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discover and Founder of Christian Science, asks the question, "How would you define Christian Science?" And the answer follows: "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony."
Science is defined, in one sense, as "knowledge which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws." Christian Science unveils the truth about God and man, and interprets the divine Principle as available in human experience. The law of God, so apprehended, is seen to emanate from divine Principle. It reveals the primal order of true spiritual being. God, divine Mind, through infinite law, maintains and governs a universe which must of necessity express, in being and action, nothing less than the mandate of God.
Spiritual creation moves in accord with divine Principle. The government of God could operate in no other way than lawfully. Without law, which is itself the orderly working of divine will throughout creation, there could be only chaos. Law is the divine impulsion which holds all existence cohering in one harmoniously working manifestation of the will of God. Law is the divine mode, the way of infinite activity. Divinity expresses itself through law, works out its purpose as law. Law characterizes the entire activity of God in His care of His creation.
