The Founder of Christian Science held the United States Constitution in particular veneration—especially as it protected the rights of individuals. She repeatedly urged respect for law.
Yet Mrs. Eddy also strongly counseled her followers against putting their trust in human law. From her own experience she knew that the misuse of law and the enactment of unjust legislation could in fact become the means for trampling individual rights and enabling tyranny temporarily to flourish.
Whatever was equitable in human law, whatever was promotive of individual rights, she saw as some approximation of divine law. "Human law," she wrote late in life, "is right only as it patterns the divine" (The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany). While human codes change as attitudes and traditions change, God's law stands as unchanging fact. Central to her discovery of Christian Science was the realization that the divine law underlying reality is what makes spiritual healing possible and reliable—the healing of sick bodies, the lifting of hatred and unjust persecution, the establishing of better government.
