Mary Baker Eddy perceived that God, Love, is the Principle of all real being and that He works according to invariable law. Because His law is invariable we may apply Christian Science safely and successfully in every situation, whether it be one involving health, disturbed economic conditions, or some other difficulty. For many, religion has been exclusively a matter of blind faith; but through the scientific perception of God as Principle, faith has been advanced for us as Christian Scientists to a spiritual understanding of God and His unerring, ever-operative law.
One who has no knowledge of God as Principle and of how He is expressed as divine law might ask, "What has Principle, which often seems to men cold and unrelenting, to do with Love?" Yet it is through the very law of Love that God as Principle is most clearly expressed. It is His law alone which makes us absolutely sure of His aid. Without Principle everything would be subject to chance and arbitrariness. We could never rely completely on God's help, because we could never be absolutely sure that it would be forthcoming. Because God is divine Principle, however, all uncertainty is excluded.
The great advantage one gains by knowing that all real being and all that really is taking place is governed by divine law was proved to the writer in the two following incidents. The first incident involved living quarters, which by order of the authorities were to be vacated in a few hours. The second concerned her position, which was being disputed by a co-worker. In each case the main truth clung to was that man has a definite place as God's idea, a place, or activity, which only this idea, and no other, can fill, and that this is a divine fact; that since man does not occupy this place by chance, but by virtue of divine law, which can be neither overturned nor circumvented, nothing can displace him. The result of knowing that man is subject only to divine law was that neither the fixing quarters nor the position had to be relinquished.
