Let the designation "law" be applied to any phase of worldy existence, and mankind is prone to accept it as immutable. A dictionary defines "immutable" as "unchangeable; invariable"; yet only in a very few instances, such as in the field of mathematics, does one find law even remotely approaching immutability.
Laws of government are so constantly changing that specialists must be employed to interpret them. Laws of medicine go through periodic readjustments in belief and practice. Even a casual persual of the Bible brings to light instances when supposedly immutable laws of matter have been broken. The law of gravity was put aside when Moses caused the Red Sea to roll back and form a wall; when Elisha caused an iron axhead to float; and when Jesus walked on the water. The three Hebrews walked in the fiery furnace in defiance of a mortal law which would have consigned their bodies to ashes. Paul shook off a poisonous viper and felt no harm despite a material law that said death would result.
Searching the Scriptures, Mary Baker Eddy discovered an invariable spiritual law which supersedes all material law and which rationally accounts for the so-called miracles of prophet and apostle, who set aside so-called laws of matter. Christ Jesus' knowledge of the immutable law enabled him to say (Mark 16:17, 18), "These signs shall follow them that believe; . . . they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover." Mrs. Eddy named her discovery Christian Science, and in "Rudimental Divine Science" she defines Christian Science thus (p. 1): "As the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony."
