THE words "law" and "order" are often used together, and rightly so, for in true law there is necessarily order. The very essence of law is order. Disorder, manifest as insubordination, disease, severe storms, and so forth, is lawless. God neither causes nor supports that which is contrary to His nature, and this fact must be established in the consciousness of those who would see order maintained in their experience.
The Bible assures us (Isa. 33:22), "The Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us." Salvation from disorders of every kind— ills of the flesh, death or the fear of death, sinful activities, catastrophes—is being worked out today by students of Christian Science through their understanding of the irrevocable divine order.
In "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mary Baker Eddy-states (p. 190), "Jesus gave his disciples (students) power over all manner of diseases; and the Bible was written in order that all peoples, in all ages, should have the same opportunity to become students of the Christ, Truth, and thus become Godendued with power (knowledge of divine law) and with 'signs following.'" That all should have the same opportunity is in accordance with divine justice. Chance, favoritism, and special dispensations are contrary to law, therefore untenable.
