"And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God," stoutly declared the Apostle Paul from the vantage ground of wide experience in applying the teachings of the law, as well as the words of Christ Jesus, to the solution of the manifold perplexities and needs of mankind. Repeatedly did this profound thinker and brilliant scholar behold righteousness rise victorious after seeming defeat, health assert itself master over sickness and disease, the truth of eternal life vanquish the belief in death, the exercise of practical goodness free the sinenslaved, the alchemy of holiness cause the machinations of evil to bring about their own undoing—in short, the working together of all things for the establishment of good in the experience of those who sought to think and live in accordance with the law of Truth and Love.
Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that "there is a tendency in things to right themselves." And Christian Science shows how Truth and Love, always operative as divine Principle, bring to light the permanence and perfection of spiritual being and expose the falsity and nothingness of so-called material life and intelligence. Hence the ameliorating, corrective, saving influence of ever-active divine Principle in behalf of all mankind.
All actual entity, every real identity, each spiritual idea, abides eternally harmonious and safe within infinite Love, divine Principle. No expression of reality can be lost or destroyed. On page 285 of the Christian Science textbook, "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," Mary Baker Eddy, Discoverer and Founder of Christian science, says: "By interpreting God as a corporeal Saviour but not as the saving Principle, or divine Love, we shall continue to seek salvation through pardon and not through reform, and resort to matter instead of Spirit for the cure of the sick. As mortals reach, through knowledge of Christian Science, a higher sense, they will seek to learn, not from matter, but from the divine Principle, God, how to demonstrate the Christ, Truth, as the healing and saving power." God's law is spiritual, maintaining the spiritual universe, including man, in perpetual order and harmony. The perception of this spiritual fact brings to the material sense of inharmony and disorder, wherever it may appear, adjustment, conciliation, healing, and betterment. So it is that "all things work together for good to them that love God."
