Article February 12, 1938 Issue

Fait Accompli

HART WOOD

As used in diplomatic language, fait accompli denotes something irrevocably accomplished, implying that it is too late to do anything about it. This indicates a state of thought which may be allied to the hopelessness and defeat which would many times rob us of the fruits of our metaphysical work otherwise well done.

Many of the outstanding demonstrations of the allness, the ever-presence, and the all-powerfulness of good have followed the persistent, tenacious holding to the truth, in the face of apparently overwhelming material testimony to the contrary, testimony of apparently hopeless failure.

The children of Israel, after witnessing signs and wonders, and after their own miraculous delivery from bondage to the powerful Pharaoh, found themselves confronted with what seemed an unsolvable problem, the Red Sea before them and the Egyptians behind them, a situation in which it seemed that the only possible outcome would be disaster. Yet they were delivered. Many times in their forty years of wilderness experience they were saved when confronted with seemingly impassable barriers, barren wastes, and arid deserts. As they obediently followed divine guidance, they suffered no harm; they were provided with food and drink, and their "raiment waxed not old."

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