When addressed as law students, the young women in a Christian Science Sunday School class stimulatingly challenged that term. They asked, "How can it apply to us; does it not require profound study of law to be designated law students?" They were reminded that among the first lessons taught in Christian Science Sunday Schools are the Ten Commandments, God's law as it appeared to Moses. Of such deep import to humanity were these Commandments deemed that their study in the Sunday School is a requirement according to the Manual of The Mother Church by our revered Leader, Mary Baker Eddy. In Deuteronomy (5:1) we read Moses' words, "Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them."
God's ever-operative law of progress led Moses to ascend Mount Horeb. His preparation and receptivity qualified him to hear God's voice, to heed the message, and to follow God's direction. Upon that revelatory height God, the supreme lawmaker, revealed the Ten Commandments, or moral code, to that noble patriarch. These Commandments, or laws, are as usable today as they were when Moses presented them more than three thousand years ago.
Christ Jesus was the greatest metaphysical law student the world has ever known. He expounded God-ordained laws and proved their validity by his healing works. His knowledge of man's oneness with and inseparability from the Father, divine Mind, enabled him to demonstrate the power attainable through obedience to God's changeless laws.
