Editorial May 20, 1939 Issue

"As he journeyed"

Evelyn F. Heywood

In Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan, it is related that a man who had fallen among thieves lay half dead on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho, when "by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. And likewise a Levite.... But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was."

When the individual begins to understand the teachings of Christian Science, he realizes how completely human existence, unless governed by Principle, is at the mercy of chance. He sees that, because of this, again and again he has passed by on the other side of happiness, of usefulness, of progress, not necessarily because he was selfish or indifferent, but because he was indecisive, unprepared, afraid. In the instability of his purpose and the ambiguity of his direction, he has entered upon that which he should have avoided, and passed by that which he should gladly have undertaken.

But the good Samaritan was in no such predicament. As he journeyed, he came immediately to the place where he was needed, and carried out in perfect sequence and to its complete consummation that which was to be done. For him nothing happened by chance. Every experience in his spiritually directed life was an opportunity to express the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man in merciful loving-kindness.

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