Accepting God's law as absolute, Christian Scientists are enabled through prayer to utilize with increasing confidence the treasures of Truth and Love gained by this understanding. God's law is above human variance; it is established, unassailable, infallible.
Beholding evil's apparent destructiveness today, thinking men everywhere are seeking anchorage for their hopes beyond the reach of so-called evil forces. And students of Christian Science are grateful, indeed, that they have found a dependable law through which hope becomes assurance and assurance brings healing. The teachings of this Science turn us at once to God as the only lawgiver, and enable the sincere seeker to see and prove that His law is practical, applicable to every need. Indeed, this Science compasses both the interpretation and the proof of God as divine Principle, Love, ever holding His universe in perfect harmony. The law of God, of the one creator, governing the one infinite creation, contains the perfect answer to evil or the counterfeit intelligence now being so ingeniously expressed in aggressive propaganda.
An authority on human law says, "Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law is nothing else but reason." Yet we know there can be no safe guide for conduct and discipline unless reason is educated to dwell upon fundamental truths. And in her seeking for this unassailable dependence, Mrs. Eddy came to understand God as divine Principle. Upon the basis of God as Principle she sets forth in her writings the supremacy of God's law. It is from this basis of God as Principle, infinite good, that the student claims his heritage of spiritual power to condemn and resist evil and discord—sin and sickness—as unreal. And it is also from this basis of Principle that he can approach the contemplation of everlasting life with spiritual assurance. Human problems center around the need of freedom to have good, to be good, to do good. Mary Baker Eddy writes in the textbook of Christian Science, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures" (p. 380), "Nothing is more disheartening than to believe that there is a power opposite to God, or good, and that God endows this opposing power with strength to be used against Himself, against Life, health, harmony."
