Editorial July 24, 1937 Issue

"Change the notion of chance"

George Shaw Cook

One often hears the remark, "I just happened to be here," or, "I happened to come in just at the right time," indicating the belief that things happen or occur by chance. Nothing "just happens," even in the realm of human experience. Either a thing occurs as the result of divine impulsion and is therefore according to divine law, or else it comes to pass because of some generally accepted belief or so-called law of the human mind.

It is well, then, that students of Christian Science should hold firmly to the fact that the real man is governed by unerring, spiritual law. Man is, therefore, never the victim of chance or accident. Mary Baker Eddy writes on page 424 of "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures," "Accidents are unknown to God, or immortal Mind, and we must leave the mortal basis of belief and unite with the one Mind, in order to change the notion of chance to the proper sense of God's unerring direction and thus bring out harmony."

Nevertheless, many mortals entertain the superstitious belief that their destiny and their daily affairs are governed by fate; that what occurs in their human experience transpires because of a sort of fatality that it is futile to resist. Mortals need to learn that the only "powers that be are ordained of God," that there is nothing really governing except divine or spiritual law. All that is taking place in the realm of reality is the expression of immortal, unvarying Principle, and not of the ever-changing so-called mortal mind. That which emanates from divine Mind is "ordained of God" and has all the power of God, infinite good, with it. That which seems to emanate from mortal mind is erroneous, spurious, illegitimate, and consequently is without actual authority or real power.

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