How great the blessings that will be seen to flow to humanity when men universally echo the Psalmist's glad statement, "O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day"! Happifying, indeed, it is to meditate daily on, and seek to be governed solely by, divine law, which is universal and impartial in its beneficent operations. God's law is the law of Life, the law of infinite Love, the law of true justice. It is all-embracing, all-pervading. This law, understood and adhered to, confers the power to overrule and annul so-called material law. God knows no material law. God's will is the only law, and, as is stated in the book of Daniel, "He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?"
All the sufferings of humanity are traceable to the false supposition that matter and material law are real and invested with power. What is termed material law is the so-called law of mortal mind. The physical senses arc unable to cognize anything beyond their own suppositional realm of matter. They testify to matter as being real and substantial, both good and bad, both useful and destructive; they maintain that life is sustained by matter and is also at its mercy. Everything to which the material senses give credence is diametrically opposed to the divine order; therefore, these senses cannot be the true spiritual sense which belongs to man who is created in God's image and likeness. Spiritual sense alone is real; it testifies only to good, to the realities which emanate from God. It is obvious that the sufferings of humanity are not good; therefore, they cannot be real. They come from false belief, which is based on false material law. In "Miscellaneous Writings" Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, states (p. 198), "All suffering is the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of both good and evil; of adherence to the 'doubleminded' senses, to some belief, fear, theory, or bad deed, based on physical material law, so-called as opposed to good, —all of which is corrected alone by Science, divine Principle, and its spiritual laws."
Christian Science demonstrates God's law of universal goodness and Love. Christ Jesus brought to humanity the truth about God's unchangeable goodness, His all-loving nature. He made it clear that suffering does not come from God's law, which operates only to bless. There are times, however, when some are inclined to doubt the truthful and comforting statements made by Jesus about our heavenly Father's tender regard for His children. Some, when they contemplate the vast amount of suffering and evil so apparent to physical sense, are tempted to question even His existence. On the other hand, many turn to Christian Science in their search for logical answers to their questions concerning what they sometimes term the enigma of human existence.
