Editorial February 23, 1946 Issue

That Which Is Inevitable

Margaret Morrison

Good only is inevitable. This is true because God is good, omnipotent divine Principle, and His will is done in earth as in heaven. In the book of Daniel we are given the interesting and enlightening story of King Nebuchadnezzar, who thought to establish himself as a great king with power and authority, for his own majesty and greatness. The inevitable law of good brought to nought this personal sense of grandeur and humbled him to see the true greatness of Spirit, impersonal, omnipotent good. Then he exclaimed in praise of God. "He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?"

On page 178 of "The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and Miscellany" Mary Baker Eddy writes: "The Scripture pronounces all that God made 'good;' therefore if evil exists, it exists without God. But this is impossible in reality, for He made all 'that was made.' Hence the inevitable revelation of Christian Science—that evil is unreal; and this is the best of it." That, then, which is real must inevitably supersede, dispel, that which is unreal, untrue. The destruction of evil reveals the inevitable triumph of good. Spiritual understanding of this indisputable fact is the rock on which Christian Scientists stand, refusing to be moved by the perversions of mortal mind, which would claim inevitability for any phase of error.

God's law makes freedom for man inevitable, and the passing of human laws designed to restrict this freedom is never inevitable. Truly "none can stay his hand, or say unto him. What doest thou?" When Christian Scientists take their stand unmoved with this inevitable law of God, this mighty impulsion of good, and scientifically understand its power, they may confidently expect to see the would-be laws of mortal mind give place to omnipotence. The evidence in human affairs of the inevitability of good depends upon our trustworthiness as Christian Scientists, our intelligent faith, our scientific dependence on Truth, our unreserved acknowledgment of the power of God. "God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God." He alone is the lawmaker.

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