The Law of God ELLA W. HOAG, CSD            When the psalmist exclaimed in joyful exultation, "O how I love thy law!" he immediately went on to say, "It is my meditation all the day." It is a truism that what one loves he is sure to meditate upon. It would be impossible not to desire to dwell with that which is lovely. To gain even a glimpse of the infinite lovableness of God's law is to bring to the human sense of it a vision of its beauty and desirability which the ordinary theological viewpoint has never presented.          In "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 206) Mrs. Eddy speaks of God as "the active, all-wise, law-creating, law-disciplining, law-abiding Principle, God." This immediately unfolds an understanding of God and His law, which was never given to humanity until in Christian Science the term Principle was used to define God. This does not take away the perception of God as a living God, but on the contrary it shows Him more intelligently than ever before as the loving Father-Mother, divine Mind, conscious of each need of every child and constantly supplying it through His omniactive, omnipresent law of good. Indeed, in accordance with this law every need of every child must originate in Principle, and the law which governs the originating of the need, must also govern its supply.          Now one definition of law is, "God's will;" and when it is understood that whatever God wills must be good and must stand forever, it inevitably follows that every purpose, every thought, of His must be its own law of fulfillment. Then what joy must be felt when there comes to the human heart even the first gleam of the truth that God being infinite good, all that really exists is forever under this perfect law of divine Principle, which is Love itself. No wonder Christian Scientists thank God for the revelation of Christian Science, which Mrs. Eddy defines in "Rudimental Divine Science" (p. 1) as "the law of God, the law of good, interpreting and demonstrating the divine Principle and rule of universal harmony." Herein it is learned that since God is Mind, every thought of God must have back of it His absolute, unalterable law of activity, of power, of right fruition, with good inevitably resulting.          Then when the Christian Scientist recognizes that man as God's reflection must be the expression of the thoughts of divine Mind, he begins to understand that the moment he dwells with a divine thought he is dwelling with this law of power, of activity, of right fruition. Jesus realized this when he said, "The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." As one awakens to this realization he, too, will see that the true words he speaks are God's and so must partake of all the quality of God's invincible law of good. Who would not love this law, the understanding of which must convey the ability to bring into evidence to the human consciousness the omnipresent activity of the all-power of God, the power of good to overrule all that is evil, all that is false and untrue? In Science and Health (p. 243) Mrs. Eddy writes, "Truth, Life, and Love are a law of annihilation to everything unlike themselves, because they declare nothing except God." Then that which is of God must be supported, maintained, and governed by the perfect law of divine Mind and nothing can reverse it or change it or interfere with it in any least way.          Although man as the image and likeness of God not only must be conscious of the perfection of God's law, but must be eternally under its immediate and absolute control, to the human consciousness this is still problematical. It may therefore be readily seen how necessary the revelation of Christian Science is, since it is only through this teaching that mortals can learn to demonstrate this law of God, and man's unity therewith, sufficiently to differentiate between the law of good and the supposititious belief in an opposite law, a law of evil. Because evil is a suppositional opposite of God, good, it too claims to be governed by law, and every mortal must awaken to this claim and learn so to know the presence and power of the law of God, good, that he will instantly reject every least belief in an opposite of good, so that evil shall have no opportunity to say to him, "I am law."          Christian Science is the world's deliverer, because in its revelation of the nature and perfection of God's law it gives to each one who will accept its teachings an inviolable rule whereby he may always know when he is being governed by God's law or when he is being held in the belief of another law, whether the belief may claim to originate with him or with another. To love God's law supremely, to pray that it may be perpetually unfolded to one, engenders the ability to express the power Jesus promised to those who follow him, when he said, "Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall by any means hurt you." Christian Science alone interprets this promise of the Master, and it does it with great wisdom in the Manual of The Mother Church (Art. XXVI, Sect. 3), where Mrs. Eddy says that Christian Scientists must be instructed "never to return evil for evil, but to know the truth that makes free, and thus be a law, not unto others, but to themselves." Obeying these commands they, too, will be able to exclaim with the psalmist, "O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day!"   "The Law of God" by Ella W. Hoag, CSD Christian Science Sentinel, January 31, 1920

 

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