Editorial February 12, 1944 Issue

Challenge Chance!

Paul Stark Seeley

"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause," wrote Voltaire.

In Johannesburg, South Africa, a young man came to see me who had been studying Christian Science a few years. He was eager to progress. Said he: "For some time I have been buying a ticket each year on the Irish sweepstakes. It costs but a little and helps my friend who sells the tickets here. I've been told that as a student of Christian Science I should not gamble, but I cannot see any harm in this. If I could see the reason for not doing it, I would stop." That was his question. He expected an intelligent answer.

Naturally I turned to Mind for wisdom and guidance, and we began to reason it out. What was back of these tickets, and why did people buy them? Because they believed that something called chance might cause them to lose a little or win much. They hoped to gain more than they paid for. They put their hope in an unfair exchange.

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