Has not the world today as never before come to regard efficient organization as its greatest need, almost its very lifeblood? Governments strive to prepare for coming events, big business endeavors to make its organization foolproof, and in domestic life a good organizer is a boon to the home. But can it be said that humanity is satisfied with the progress made? Is it not becoming daily more apprehensive as to where modern methods are leading mankind? Some methods of organization would press upon the so-called human mind systems of regimentation where individuality and initiative have less and less opportunity for expression. In such restrictive systems there is no manifestation of God's order or law.
In her sermon "The People's Idea of God" Mary Baker Eddy writes (p. 1): "Every step of progress is a step more spiritual. The great element of reform is not born of human wisdom; it draws not its life from human organizations; rather is it the crumbling away of material elements from reason, the translation of law back to its original language,—Mind, and the final unity between man and God." And how plainly through her writings she leads us to see where true satisfaction lies, that is, in the realization of "unity between man and God," that state of consciousness which knows the oneness and allness of Mind, divine Love, where there is no striving and God is the source of every idea. In such activity there is rest and peace, "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding" (Phil. 4:7).
Law is a divine reality. Law and Mind are inseparable, for God, divine Principle, acts through law to produce all that is real. Divine law is perfect, unchangeable, indestructible, continuous, and perpetually active. Because it is maintained by divine Mind, it cannot be stopped or made to cease functioning as power. This law is merciful, for its function is to produce harmony; it is animated by Love and governed by the one intelligence, Truth, and so blesses all. As in the working out of a mathematical problem, so with a problem of organization, the Principle, or foundation of Truth, must be correctly drawn—simply drawn.
