Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1938-06-10
A Lecture
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Christian Science
Entitled
Christian Science, The
Law of God
by
Paul Stark Seeley, C. 8. B.
of Portland, Oregon
Member Of The Board f Leesussship sf
The Mother Church, The Frat Church II
Christ, Scientist, In Boston. Aasssehusetss

Many people are asking, What Is
Christian Science? The answer can
be given In five words: Christian Sci
ence is spiritual law. This Is not the
law which is made IN legislatures. It
Is the higher, unchanging law OF the
creative power which men call God.
Possibly If you ask yourself, just
what is law? you may ind you
haven't a very definite and satisfac-
tory sense about it. It is our igno-
rance of the creators law which is
responsible for all our troubles. Un-
derstanding Of Gods law lessons and
removes them. When you go out from
this lecture I hope you Will take at
least this one idea with you-Chrls-
tian Science is Gods law; Gods law
is Christian Science. In the course
of the lecture you will see something
of the reason for this statement.
Calvin Coolidge once said, God
makes, and men discover law" Mary
Baker Eddy discovered what God had
made-Eis law. So Christian Science
is not Mrs. Eddy's personal opinion
or invention. It Is the fundamental
law of the Mind, or intelligence, re-
spensible for the universe and man.
Books Like the Bible and Science and
Health may explain Gods law. but
Gods law isn't In books. Gods law
lives. Gods law is ever active. True
law has the substance and activity Of
Mind. In her work fundamental Di-
vine Science" %. u Mrs. Eddy de-
fines Christian Science as "the law
of God, the law Of good, interpreting
and demonstrating the divine Prin-
ciple and rule Of universal harmony"
Christian Science Is, then, the law OF
God, and Mrs. Eddy's writings inter-
pref, or explain, Gods law and help
us to demonstrate, or prove, that this
law outlaws all forms Of discord and
produces individual and universal
harmony. II we are to understand
Christian Science we must under.
stand divine law, for Christian Sct-
ence is divine law, no more, no less.
What u Law7
Let us see Just what law Is, Just
where law Is, and just why law is.
First, what is law? Real law is Gods
governing force, the energy Of Mind.
In human experience we are con-
stantly dealing with forces, or laws,
some good, some bad. II you go to
your neighbor to do him a kindness
it is q good, or intelligent, force
which inpels you. That good force Is
Gods law. If you go to quarrel with
him 1t is an evil, or unintelligent.
force which impels you. That evil
force is evils would-be law. A thief
permits his hands to be moved by a
negative force. The man who offers
his hand for a friendly handclasp is
controlled by a loving, kindly force.
A crouch Dis just negative mental
force on display. So is every form OF
false appetite and sinful dissipation.
Bad habits are the result Of habitual
yielding to negative forces. AS forces
are good or bad, so is law, for law is
force. Says Mrs. Eddy in "Miscella-
neous writings" (p. 25D, Law Is
either a moral or an immoral force.
The law Of God Is a moral ana
spiritual force Of immortal and d.
vine Mind"
Where Is Law?
The next question is, Where Is law?
Law is not far away. Every moment
we are yielding ourselves to some law
force. Law is as close to us as
thought. Indeed, law lives and OPP
crates in thought. It is Minds energy
and inseparable from thought. Law
lives in us.
Suppose we walk, or ride, down q
busy street In large city and come
to a red trafic signal. We stop.
Why? Because Of the trafdc law.
But where is the law? No one sees it.
It is not in the liSlt, or in the car,
or In the body Of the pedestrian.
Nor is it In some dusty lawbook some
where. Law is more alive than q
books pa ,Jer and ink. Where is the
law. then? The law Is in the think
ing of the people. Cars stop, and
bodies stop, because men think what
we call "the traffic law" The trafhc
moves and stops in an orderly way
because men think lawfully. AS with
the traffic so with Gods law-the
moral, spiritual law. 1t is in our
thought. God has put it there to
govern us. Says the Bible, Il will
put my laws into their mind" and
again, THE law of his God is in his
heart: none Of his steps shall Slide"
Christian Science is helping us to
understand and use this divine law
force already within us.
Conscience Is Activity Of Law
We use law more than we realize
Parents bring up their children to be
honest. o How? Simply by teaching
them to yield their thought ito the
force of honesty instead Of yielding
it to the negative mental force callec
dishonesty. This constructive though'
force called honesty the parents know
already exists. The parents canno'
make it. God makes it. It Is His hv.
ing law. The parents help the chile
to discover it in himself and use it.
All progress is this: simply th'
awakening of human thought tx
find the spiritual forces, or Godi
law, and letting these forces contro
the thoughts and lives of men anC