The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-01-19
eet his human needs
 MRS. EDDY'S DISCOVERY

it can be said that she has discovered the law of Spirit. which is spiritual truth.
 Tn the material reaim many material laws have been discovered. Sir Isaac Newron. for instance. observed the movements of material bodies, and conceived the idea that such move ments were governed by q law which he afterwards discovered and named the law of eravitation This law can not be seen with the physical eyes, but it's existence can be proved in other ways. Likewise. Marcon gained the idea that another law existed, and he said that if he could discover it he would be able to transmit messages by it's agency from one part of the earth without any material wires That law has always existed and has always operated. but it was not until it was discovered that it became available for human use It cannot be seen by the human eve. but anyone may now learn how to utilize it.
 In much the same way there was horn in the consciousness of Mrs. Eddy the idea that there exists law of Spirit. She had observed that some times great suffering and distress were produced by material laws. and that even whole communities were devas- tated and destroyed by their opera tion hence she came to the conclusion that a God who possesses infinite wis dom and goodness could not operate through laws that produce both good and evil She therefore came to the conclusion that God ais governing His children and His universe through spiritual laws and not through ma terial laws
 Mrs. Eddy also studied the miracles in the old and New Testaments, and came to the inevitable, conclusion that all of those events were correlated by means of an underlying spiritual law that had been known and understood by the men who wrought them, and she said that if she could discover the the Same manner now as in Bible times: that it would be a healing law, and would now heal people of sickness and sin and every evil human condi- ton the same as then.
 This idea grew and expanded in h 1T polling motive of her entire life. In the year 1Sf5 she disco ;ered the law of Spirit. and named it Christian Sci ence. After waiting nine Years. dur. ing which time she subjected the Prin- ciple ,tlHt she had discovered to the sickness and other forms of human dscord, she published a statement of ] Christian Science in a book which she 1 entitled science and Health with Key 1 to the Scriptures" This book is now 1 everywhere recognized as the only i textbook of Christian science, great ! religious movement has formed around 1 it's teachings. which in one genera l ton has eirdled the earth with its churches The spread of Christian Sci ence has been phenomenal, and its 1 growth has resulted from healing l Every auHeTeHt ol CHi lstldH NN has actually been healed of some sick
 ness, disease or sinful appetite, ane most of them have been healed of many such conditions. These facts are easily verified. and are worthy of very seri cus consideration.
 SPIRITUAL LAW
 Mrs. Eddy discove, cd the law Q j Spirit as truly as Sir Isaac NewtoI
 discovered the law of gravitation. ant this fact should be thoroughly under
 the movements of material bodes ar' | regulated and governed by this ma
 terial law so Mrs. Eddy discovered tn 1 Principle that governs the entire uni
 verse. including every detail in tn lives of men. That supreme. creative
 governing. omnipresent Mind or Prin
 ciple is God. the only cause. the onl.
 creator, the only Ruler of mar and tn
 universe,
 When we watch water flowing owe
 the land we see that without hesita
 tioa or delay it always selects the loy
 places All fresh water is continuall
 striving to reach the sea where it vii
 be at rest In choosing it's course
 measures the topography of the groun
 more accurately and more quickly tha
 the engineer could do with his lnstru
 ments No embodied mind is presen
 10 tell it where to do, but there IS
 unerring. invisible raw everywh her
 present directing. it's movement, an
 always guiding it in the true course. If such perfect law eSists to guid
 the water in it's movement toward tn
 sea. how much more certain it IS Una
 equally perfect spiritual law exists guide the footsteps of tired and dis eouraged human beings out of tn wilderness of sickness. failure an'
 sin into the kingdom of peace.
 The Bible tells us that such la exists and is operating for our beneii
 In Psalms S7:23 we read r"The stef of good man are ordered by U Lord" Again in Romans S:2s,
 things work together for good to tnel that love God" and in Romans s; : For the law of the Spirit or lie Christ Jesus hath made me free fro the law of sin and death.'
 What a sense of security comes
 one when he realizes that there really d law of good operating Uni l will sufde his footsteps as truly l the law of gravitation guides II water And what sense or pea'