The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-12-07
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE--GOD'S LAW

that we have never associated law
with anything but with matter. All
material or physical manifestations
of whatever name or nature-all
material phenomena--clalm to be the
product or outcome of some material
law. Everything cogniZed in the eX-
peIience of nnortals from the cradle
to the grave is claimed to exist or
to transpire because of a law of
matter, and if we will carefully
analyZe our concept of this entire
material existence we will find that
we have attributed all material con-
ditions, phenomena and manifesto
tons to God. Have we not? Have
we not always looked upon every
thing of which we have been cog
Infant through the medium of the
senses of seeing, hearing, feeling,
tasting and smelling to be God-or-
dained and manifestations of divine
cause of which we have had no par
ticular knowledge? We have merely
taken these apparent material con-
ditions to be matters of fact, with
out question, and have submitted to
the misery and want and woe result
; tant therefrom as inevitable vista
tions of divine providence of which
we were supposed to know little or
nothing until, perhaps, we had passed
the portals OF another existence. We
have hardly once stopped to consider
what Jesus said and did about these
conditions which we have so long at
trfbuted, in our ignorance, to God.
But when, by Christian Science, we
have been called to a halt in our
loose and reckless methods of think
ing about God and men, and about
Jesus and his works, we have been
brought face to face with the fact
that there is hardly a word uttered
by Jesus or an act committed by him
in the course of his ministry that
does not completely deny, controvert
and overthrow some so-called ma
terial. or physical law. And if we
will follow him in his three years
work with men in his effort to estab-
lish the kingdom of heaven on earth
we will find that in those three years
there is not single evidence of ma
terial existence, not a single So
| called law governing our material
living, and material phenomena
which forms a part of our daily ex-
; perience. that Jesus did not utterly
annul through his intelligent appli
, cation of what he termed the law of
God which he characterized as the
Truth" which he said would make
us all free when known or under
stood. eye shall know the TRUTH"
Jesus said, land the truth shall make
you free" That is, we shall know
and understand this Law of God
i. which l here expound and prove to
you and this knowledge shall give
you power over all things material,
thereby setting you free from these
so-called laws which have so long
held mankind in bondage. Jesus
said, Think not that I am come to
destroy the law or the prophets:
am not come to destroy, but to full
fill" And then he proceeded to break
down and destroy every physical law
of which we have any cognizance
through his application of Gods law.
And this Law of God-this Law,
the knowledge and application of
which Jesus said should make us
free-is what Christian Science has
come to re-establish with men. Those
wonderful works of Jesus prove con-
clusively that laws of matter are not
IGod's Laws and that Gods Laws are
not only superior but are actually
laws of humiliation to so-called ma
terial laws and thereby prove that
material laws are the product Of a
mortal misconception Of what con-
stitutes true law.
AS we contemplate with prayerful
care the life and works of our Mas
ter, as we study carefully all that he
said in connection with his many
wonderful works, we become i'm.
pressed, more and more, with the
gratifying conviction that the under
standing and application, in our daily
living, of the truths, or laws, which
he expounded constitute that Com
forter which Jesus sail he would
!, send to us and which will, when
understood and applied by us, free
us from all those ills to which we
have ever considered mankind natur-
ally subject.
We find, with reinsurance, that
this Law of God is law Of Life
, not of death: law of health-not of
: sickness; law OF abundance-not Of
, lack and lnlitation a law of har-
, mony-not of discord; a law of peace
not of strife; law Of love-not OF
, hate. And oh! if we could but com
r prehend what this law of love en-
, braces. How sadly this old world
needs love, the hove that Jesus gave
, to the world and of which the apostle