The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-21

Jesus and his works. we have been brought face to face with the fact that there is hardly word uttered by Jesus or an act committed by him In the course of his ministry that does not completely deny, contro- vert and overthrow some so-called material or physical law. And If we will follow him in his three years work with men in his effort to es- | tabllsh the kingdom of heaven on earth we will find that In those three years there Is not a single evidence 1 of material 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 tho Truth" which he said would make us all free when known or under stood. We shall know the truth" Jesus said, "and the truth shall make you free" That is. ye shall know and understand this Law of God 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 am come to destroy the law or the prophets: 1 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. j gu I ,S ic knowledge and application of which Jesus said should make us free-is what Christian Science has come to re-estabiish with men. Those won derful works of Jesus prove conclu- sively that laws of matter are not Gods Laws and that Gods Laws are not only superior but are actually laws of annihilation to go-called ma terial laws. and thereby prove that material laws are the product of a mortal misconception of what con stitutes true law. Now. 1t is perfectly evident that Jesus, in nis presenta ton to humanity of law higher and more powerful than so called ma teriai laws. did not give to mankind law of his own inventing. He es- abolished Gods Law which has ex- isted throughout all time the evil dence of which runs as golden unread tnrOuenOuL HI history. -Ine x.stence of this Law of God can be traced throughout the lives of the prophets and patriarchs, coming to light at intervals in the history of humanity when someone, through pure spirituality, rose high enough in thought to soar above the lettering bonds of crass materialism and glimpse the glories of an existence wherein man may be found in the image and likeness of his Maker. sub ject only to the Law of God--the Law iof Good. AS we contemplate with prayerful care the life and works of our Master as we study carefully all that he said in connection with his many wonderful works, we become impressed, 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 said he would send to us and which will. when un- ders,Uod and applied by us, free us from all those ills to which we have nese~ considered mankind naturally subject.
 We find, with reassurance. that this Law of God is a law of Life-not of death: a law of headth--not of sickness; law of abundance-not of lack and limitations. law of har- rrony--not of discord; law of peace mot of strife; a law of love--not of hate. And oh! If we could but com prehend what this law of love ern- braces How sadly this old world needs love, the love that Jesus gave to the world and of which the apostle spake when he said, Love Is the ful- filling of the law" What a ministry of love was that of Jesus. Could aught he compared to that love which endured, without murmuring. the worlds hatred and scorn that you and might understand that the Law of God Is omnipotent and omnipres- ent; that we might know that there are no material conditions over which this Law of God has not all power? It was this love expressed through Jesus which enabled him to prove that there is no death. and whereby he emerged from the tomb to perpetuate throughout the ages mans inalienable right to life eter- nal. Writing of this experience of [ T. ns. Mary Baker Eddy. the Discoy- erer and Founder of Christian ncsencc, says on page 4 of her book,