Life and Law

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 10, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 44.

Life and Law.— It is one of the most reasonable things imaginable that when God gave life to His creatures, He gave it in harmony with, or subject to, the laws of their being. That is, the law of the being regulates the life. If the creature live in perfect harmony with the law of his being, his life will be perpetuated indefinitely. If he fail thus to do, he perverts that law, and the perversion of that law perverts the life, and therefore limits it. There are numerous illustrations of this in our every-day life. A machine which runs contrary to the law of its making soon goes to pieces. A perfectly adjusted machine that runs in perfect consonance with the rules which govern it, wears, even in this mortal life, almost indefinitely. If man had lived ever in harmony with the highest law of his being, the law of character, he would never have died. The sentence of wrath which God pronounced upon the race, came not because of any arbitrary act on the part of God; it was the consequence of man's transgression of the law which governs his life.